What you probably want to understand is what effect not using the UK
federation suggestion will have. If certain applications expect the
recommended version you may loose access to them by using the other version.
Michael White wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm in the process of setting up an IdP and I'm just starting to look
> into setting eduPersonTargetedID - I note that the UK Federation
> documentation
> (http://www.ukfederation.org.uk/content/Documents/AttributeUsage)
> recommends using "PersistentIDAttributeDefinition" to generate
> eduPersonTargetedID, however the example "resolver.xml" file that comes
> bundled with Shibboleth says not to use this as it is deprecated.
> Instead it says to use "SAML2PersistentID" instead.
>
> So, should I go with PersistentIDAttributeDefinition as recommended in
> the UK Fed documentation, or with SAML2PersistentID as recommended in
> the Shib files (and on the ShibWiki)? What are others doing (and does
> anyone know what the difference is)?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike
>
> Michael White
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