[scim] Unique Attributes

Gayan Gunawardana <gayan@wso2.com> Sun, 05 February 2017 05:12 UTC

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Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2017 10:42:49 +0530
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According to [1] userName seems to be an unique attribute where duplicate
resources identified with userName. Similarly

Is Group "displayName" an unique attribute ?

If answer is no, Does implementation have flexibility to decide uniqueness ?

[1]https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7644#section-3.3

Thanks,
Gayan

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Gayan Gunawardana
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