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IdP Display Name
Typically, the value of the IdP Display Name field will be presented on IdP discovery service interfaces. In practice, if the <mdui:DisplayName> element does not exist in metadata, applications usually fall back on the <md:OrganizationDisplayName> element. The latter is a poor substitute for the IdP Display Name, however, since it assumes an organization deploys at most one IdP.
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| Edit the user-facing IdP Display Name with care. To avoid duplicates and other anomalies on discovery interfaces, browse the complete list of IdPs IdP display names in InCommon metadata before changing your IdP Display Name. |
Since the Site Administrator can edit the IdP Display Name field, the ultimate responsibility for disambiguating duplicate or similar IdP Display Names rests with the Site Administrator (not the InCommon RA). To assist with this effort, we provide a current list of IdPs IdP display names in InCommon metadata as they will appear on a typical discovery interface (by that we mean a discovery interface that falls back on the <md:OrganizationDisplayName> element if the <mdui:DisplayName> element does not exist in metadata).
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