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[Peter Schober <peter.schober AT univie.ac.at>]

* Janusz Ulanowski <janusz.ulanowski AT heanet.ie> [2016-10-07 15:05]:
> Thanks very much for you reply Peter:)

Neither the SAML Metadata not SAML Core seem to say something about
this specifically, but maybe it follows from other specs. E.g. for
URIs see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-6 on
normalisation and comparison.

Either way, I'm pretty sure any form of normalisation in data
structrures used as /identifiers/ within SAML is a bad idea, precluded
by specs or not.
(With comparing e.g. ACS URLs it may be less clear, but I'd still seek
guidance from the OASIS Security Technical Comittee, via
aforementioned list.)

-peter