A shared organization has the following characteristics:
It is subordinate to the provider organization and is created by the SPA.
Users can be provisioned in a shared organization.
In the example shown in Figure A–1, user5 belongs to the siroe.com domain and has a mail address of user5@siroe.com.
It uses one or more of the shared domain names from the list provided by the provider organization.
In the example shown in Figure A–1, the shared organization DEF uses the domain name siroe.com.
Other shared organizations can share the domain name used by this organization.
In the example shown in Figure A–1, both the DEF and HIJ organizations belong to the siroe.com domain.
A shared organization does not have a unique namespace.