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SDSS URN Registry

The SDSS project has been delegated registration authority for the URN namespace urn:mace:ac.uk:sdss.ac.uk. Within this namespace, we register URNs under one sub-space related to the eduPerson attribute standard and three sub-spaces corresponding to three different classes of Shibboleth entity:

Rules and existing registrations for each URN sub-space follow.

Entitlement URNs

URNs for eduPerson entitlement values are allocated under urn:mace:ac:uk:sdss:entitlement. These values are used by identity providers to indicate a subject's entitlement to access a particular service or to access particular restricted content within a service.

Federation URNs

URNs for federations are allocated under urn:mace:ac.uk:sdss:federation. It is not anticipated that further allocations will be made within this space except for experiments with multi-federation working within the SDSS project; federations managed in other projects should acquire their own delegated URN spaces if possible.

Identity Provider URNs

URNs for origins are allocated on the assumption that there will only be one at the majority of organisations. We allocate urn:mace:ac.uk:sdss:provider:identity:org-dns for such origins, and urn:mace:ac.uk:sdss:provider:identity:origin-dns for others.

Identity providers for projects within the JISC Core Middleware Program may be registered as urn:mace:ac.uk:sdss:provider:identity:project.ac.uk, but only if the domain name in question has been formally allocated to the project.

Service Provider URNs

We allocate urn:mace:ac.uk:sdss.ac.uk:provider:service:service-dns for service providers under the assumption that a single institution would likely host more than one service, but not more than one per fully qualified domain name (Note: many Shibboleth applications may be hosted by a single service provider). When more than one service requires a URN at a given FQDN, we allocate urn:mace:ac.uk:sdss.ac.uk:provider:service:service-dns:service-name.

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