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It seems plausible to me that DocuSign is looking for a persistent identifier that is preferably non-reassignable and using it as a blind primary key for a user record, but there is no single term on the wire for that.
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<div class="">That's exactly what I'd want to see built. I wish we had coherent verbiage for it.<br class="">
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<div class="">On Nov 30, 2016, at 3:18 PM, IAM David Bantz <<a href="mailto:dabantz@alaska.edu" class="">dabantz@alaska.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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the DocuSign admin console, users are identified by their email address (as provided by and possibly updated by the mail attribute in the IdP's SAML assertion), but there appears to be an underlying key based on the values you provide in the Subject nameid.</span></div>
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