Shibboleth Developers

["RL 'Bob' Morgan" <>]

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Nathan Dors wrote:

> Does the E-Auth federation say anything about what should be stuck in 
> there?

The "SAMLspec.pdf" doc (from http://cio.gov/eauthentication/TechSuite.htm) 
just says it's an "end user identifier (Uid) such that no two subscribers 
within a CS can share the same uid."  The folks at NSF Fastlane say that 
an opaque value is fine, ie they wouldn't ever show it to the user.  And 
obviously a value that is more stable over time (eg targetedid or uuid) is 
better than one that is less stable (eg typical netid).

 - RL "Bob"