Shibboleth Developers

["Scott Cantor" <>]

> So are the NameIDFormat elements present only on some entities in IQ and 
> IC because they were added after the initial conversion to the SAML 
> metadata format?

I wasn't aware any were missing, but it's certainly possible. I thought your
style sheet created them. If not, that would explain why they aren't there.

> I mean, there doesn't *have* to be a reason for this, it could just be 
> randomness.  If I was going to do something for completeness, I'd just 
> add it to everything though.

I thought we had, but since InQueue is soon to die, I'm not about to worry
about it now.

> I'm considering proposing adding these to everything in SDSS, because 
> I'm generally a believer of making the default explicit when possible. 
> I can't think of a plausible deployment that this would cause trouble 
> for, but if anyone else can I'd appreciate a heads-up...

I can't see any way it would break something, but if somebody were altering
their deployment to use some other Format, certainly their metadata ought to
reflect that choice.

-- Scott