Shibboleth Developers

[Scott Cantor <>]

> OK, sure, even more reason for a doc to do this, and it still 
> seems like a future eduPerson spec could incorporate this.  I 
> guess for now this would be filling in the "Standard 
> Encoding" section of Walter's doc?

Yes.

> And, er, what *is* the AttributeNamespace we're using for 
> these? "urn:mace:shibboleth:1.0:attributeNamespace:uri"?

Yes, at the moment. That, uh, unwieldy value is supposed to mean "look at the 
Name and interpret it as a URI".

A lot of the SAML code uses a separator of "!!" to concat the namespace and 
name when associating code with attributes (like
plugins), so it works with other namespaces, but a lot of the Shib code kind 
of bakes that URI in at the moment to simplify
configuration.

It's just a major hassle to have to deal with a two part name.

> Hmm, via DDDS?  Do you have a clear idea of how that would 
> work?  I don't ...

Well, I think I understand some of DDDS, but I don't think there's much 
client support for it. My initial thinking was that it could
be done via a web based app that had the DDDS support in it. Mostly it's just 
a pet project to get my feet wet with it.

-- Scott

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