<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">unspecified is not a real name format, it means “I don’t care what format you send me”.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In my experience there are 2 valid formats to use: transient and persistent</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you need anything else, then the SAML2 formats don’t apply (or at least extremely rare do they).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In my use cases, I always send the user’s Login ID. I’ve actually sent it as “unspecified” before, but it makes no sense. Maybe it does when you first read the standard.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Paul</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 23, 2017, at 2:43 PM, Cheltenham, Chris <<a href="mailto:ccheltenham-ext@philasd.org" class="">ccheltenham-ext@philasd.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class="">We have a vendor asking is we can use unspecified nameID format.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class="">Wasn’t that deprecated in SAML 2.0?<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class="">I have read the SAML documentation 100 times and I still don’t know what the hell they are talking about in that nameID section.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">===========================<br class=""><br class="">Thank You;<br class=""><br class="">Chris Cheltenham<br class="">Technology Services<br class="">The School District of Philadelphia<br class=""><br class="">Work # 215-400-5025<br class="">Cell # 215-301-6571</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">To unsubscribe from this list send an email to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="mailto:users-unsubscribe@shibboleth.net" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-decoration: underline; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">users-unsubscribe@shibboleth.net</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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