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Subject: RE: [saml-dev] is <NameID> required?

From: "Scott Cantor" <cantor.2@osu.edu>
To: "'Tom Scavo'" <trscavo@gmail.com>, "'SAML Developers'" <saml-dev@lists.oasis-open.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:22:12 -0400

> In the SAML V2.0 browser profile, at least one assertion MUST contain
> a <Subject> element, but the spec doesn't go so far as to say that
> this <Subject> element MUST contain a <NameID> element?  Is this
> correct?

Yes, that's correct, but doing so precludes using certain other protocols
like SingleLogout.

-- Scott

References:
- is <NameID> required?
  - From: "Tom Scavo" <trscavo@gmail.com>