RE: [saml-dev] Issuer and webSSO profile.

["Giuseppe Sarno" <gsarno@nortel.com>]

Hi,
thanks for the clarification.

Giuseppe. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Cantor [mailto:cantor.2@osu.edu] 
Sent: 25 September 2006 15:39
To: Sarno, Giuseppe (MOP:GM15); saml-dev@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [saml-dev] Issuer and webSSO profile.

> The last line seems to imply that the issuer would actually use the 
> qualifiers etc.

If the format of the identifier makes that something worth doing, yes.

> But from what we discussed here it looks like the issuer will never 
> use the attributes in the NameIDType, and it is basically just a 
> string. Is this correct ?

In Web SSO, yes, it's a URI in fact, but the core spec is not specific
to Web SSO. What if I issue an assertion about somebody else and my
identity is expressed as a persistent ID?

-- Scott


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