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  • From: "Scott Cantor" <>
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  • Subject: RE: [OpenSAML] Attribute : which namespace ?
  • Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:18:15 -0500
  • Organization: The Ohio State University


wrote on 2009-11-27:
> I don't know what for namespace to set for the attribute. Apparently the
> AttributeNamespace property is required (according to the SAML 1.1 XML
> Schema). Is there a standard value that I can set for this property ?

It's a horrid little attribute that has no standardization. The Shibboleth
project standardized its defaults around a fixed constant that signifies the
Name is a URI and the Namespace is meaningless. Beyond that there are no
standard practices other than very ugly name-splitting hacks.

-- Scott





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