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RE: Attributes, and Shibboleth -- the EPPN swamp

From: "Scott Cantor" <>
To: "'David L. Wasley'" <>, "'Shibboleth Project'" <>, <>, <>
Subject: RE: Attributes, and Shibboleth -- the EPPN swamp
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 01:56:36 -0500
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Organization: The Ohio State University

> Furthermore, an EPPN from one domain can not be assumed to be unique
> across all such domains, i.e. it is not globally unique. Therefore,
> as an application or resource manager, I would always make the
> association
>
> unique_user_identifier = concatenation (EPPN, <asserting domain> )

Maybe I'm wrong, but I understood the intent to be that EPPN was
universally (more or less) unique?

In other words, I thought EPPN alone was supposed to be unique without
appending anything else to it. Otherwise, why have the right-hand side?

-- Scott

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Attributes, and Shibboleth -- the EPPN swamp, Steven_Carmody, 01/18/2002
- RE: Attributes, and Shibboleth -- the EPPN swamp, Scott Cantor, 01/19/2002
  - RE: Attributes, and Shibboleth -- the EPPN swamp, David L. Wasley, 01/23/2002
    - RE: Attributes, and Shibboleth -- the EPPN swamp, Scott Cantor, 01/23/2002
      - RE: Attributes, and Shibboleth -- the EPPN swamp, Paul B. Hill, 01/23/2002
        
        RE: Attributes, and Shibboleth -- the EPPN swamp, Steven_Carmody, 01/23/2002
        
        RE: Attributes, and Shibboleth -- the EPPN swamp, Paul B. Hill, 01/23/2002
        
        RE: Attributes, and Shibboleth -- the EPPN swamp, David L. Wasley, 01/23/2002
        
        RE: Attributes, and Shibboleth -- the EPPN swamp, RL 'Bob' Morgan, 01/24/2002
        
        RE: Attributes, and Shibboleth -- the EPPN swamp, RL 'Bob' Morgan, 01/25/2002
        RE: Attributes, and Shibboleth -- the EPPN swamp, Scott Cantor, 01/25/2002
        RE: Attributes, and Shibboleth -- the EPPN swamp, RL 'Bob' Morgan, 01/25/2002
        
        RE: Attributes, and Shibboleth -- the EPPN swamp, David L. Wasley, 01/25/2002
        RE: Attributes, and Shibboleth -- the EPPN swamp, RL 'Bob' Morgan, 01/28/2002

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RE: Attributes, and Shibboleth -- the EPPN swamp