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Comment: restore eduPerson change log anchor

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The eduPersonTargetedID SAML Attribute has officially been deprecated. No new deployments should be making use of this attribute and any existing deployments should make plans to migrate to the SAML pairwise-id attribute. The new replacement attribute is simpler and therefore preferable in all regards: It's a simple attribute with simple string values (instead of a complex XML data structure), it has a single, consistent way of requirements signalling from the Service Provider and a single, consistent on-the-wire representation. It is also defined in an official OASIS SAML 2.0 Profile, not merely part of a community "standard" (eduPerson), and not specific to edu-anything. So transitioning to the pairwise-id SAML attribute should be started ASAP.

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