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Suggested addition to core-19.doc, sec. 1.3.2.2
The text in section 1.3.2.2 of core-19.doc is a bit clearer (or more
vague?) on the use of NameIdentifier than I realized. It currently says:
"The interpretation of the security domain and the name are left to
individual implementations."
I suggest this wording:
"The interpretation of the security domain and the name are left to
individual implementations, including issues of anonymity, pseudonymity,
and the persistence of the identifier with respect to the asserting and
relying parties."
The reasoning for this is to call out a few issues in the
use/interpretation of names, in a generic sense, so that it's clear that
nothing in NameIdentifier communicates those semantics in-band. With
respect to "championing anonymity as a use case," it's demonstrably
possible to encode lots of different kinds of "names" inside
NameIdentifier, and this is intended to say "SAML says to do whatever
you want."
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