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Re: entityID (or providerId)


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  • From: Tom Scavo <>
  • To: Nate Klingenstein <>
  • Cc: Shibboleth Development <>
  • Subject: Re: entityID (or providerId)
  • Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:12:18 -0400
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On 6/23/05, Nate Klingenstein
<>
wrote:
>
> It's also the formal term in the SAML standards(see
> 3.4.1.3.1 of SAML 2.0 Core, among others) and it would nice to be
> consistent.

But see Section 8.3.6 of Core, which refers to "entity" not
"provider". For what it's worth, the term "entityID" is used more
than "providerID" throughout the entire SAML spec.

Interestingly, neither term is defined in the glossary (but see the
entry for "identifier"), which defines a provider as a role assigned
to an entity. So it seems the latter is more general.

Does a WAYF have an identifier associated with it? Is this better
called a providerID or entityID?

Tom

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