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1.3 Contact information
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Certain affiliates (faculty, staff, alumni), after separating from the University, are eligible to participate in an email-forwarding service. As long as they recommit once every two years using their campus NetID, they may maintain email forwarding indefinitely.
The eduPersonTargetedID attribute is not currently available in production systems. Projects on the horizon will shortly mandate the use of one or both of these attributes. The eduPersonPrincipalName attribute, being composed from the campus NetID, may change if someone chooses to rename their NetID (Kerberos login ID). The eduPersonTargetedID attribute will be permanent, very likely algorithmically composed, and so not changable by the end user.
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