Re: [scim] Globally Unique Resource Identifiers

["Phil Hunt (IDM)" <[e-mail]>]

Missed the second part. Most people use guids for this purpose to avoid having to check for conflict.  

If you use an id subject to change you are asking for problems. At least that was the lesson of ldap DNs.  Guids bring stability in many forms. 

Phil

> On Aug 9, 2017, at 3:07 PM, Shelley <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> The SCIM specification indicates that the id [1]:
> 
>> MUST be unique across the SCIM service provider's entire set of resources.
> 
> Is this implying that the identifier must be globally unique across all types of resources, or simply that the identifier must be unique across all resources of the same type? Further, how does this statement account for tenancy?
> 
> Requiring uniqueness across resource types may incur undue burden on service providers to maintain. All resources are relative to a type, e.g. /Users/<id>. Even the global search functionality doesn't require global uniqueness because the combination of resourceType and id may be used to uniquely identify resources. Further, the SCIM 1.1 specification did not have this requirement, so this could make uplifting to SCIM 2.0 more difficult for some providers.
> 
> [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7643#section-3.1
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