Shibboleth Developers

[Scott Cantor <>]

> So we should just step up and realize we have a registry of 
> attr type URNs.  That registry can put them in:
> 
>   urn:mace:dir:attribute-type:<well-known-short-name-of-attr-type>

I really, really don't want to call this attribute-type. It's not a type. 
It's an attribute. The type is "string", or "integer", or
"ASN.1 blob in format x". Calling it type will really confuse things because 
SAML doesn't treat it as a type, and in fact we have to
define a type when we send the attributes that isn't the same concept at all.

Even LDAP has types, doesn't it? I thought the object class had attributes in 
it, and those attributes have a type, and a short
name, and an OID.

-- Scott

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