Shibboleth Developers

[Tom Scavo <>]

On 6/23/05, Scott Cantor 
<>
 wrote:
> > Also, I think we should start using the term "entityID" rather than
> > "providerId" in our documentation and writing.  As Howard has pointed
> > out, the latter is hopelessly overloaded.
> 
> Overloaded with what?

With the word "provider", which has multiple connotations.  Shib CVS,
for example, is peppered with this term.

> The biggest annoyance was that Liberty invented both
> terms here but put entityID in the metadata, which I probably should have
> changed

Probably good you didn't since not all entity roles are SPs or IdPs.

> I don't know what else is a providerId. I'd never
> even heard the term before.

I agree with Nate, it's okay to call the identifier associated with an
SP or IdP a "providerId" (although there seems to be some
inconsistency in the capitalization of that last letter) but if the
SAML glossary is any indication, a providerId is a special case of an
entityID (since a provider is a system entity role).

Just trying to get this straight in my mind...

Thanks,
Tom