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[Thomas Lenggenhager <lenggenhager AT switch.ch>]

On 05.02.14 15:43, Ian Young wrote:
...
> * Scran don't have a local discovery service but rely on the UKf's
> central discovery service. This is not what we recommend, but it is
> probably fairly common.
> 
> * The UKf's central discovery service doesn't know which IdPs are
> customers of which SPs, so it can't restrict the list... that's why we
> recommend people implement local discovery at the SP. We don't think
> it's practical for the UKf staff to keep track of the relationships
> between our 886 SPs and 725 IdPs (that's 642,350 potential
> relationships, for those without a calculator handy) so we're not going
> to try.
> ...

Why not just list on the UKf central DS the native UKf IdPs only?

The interfederation enabled SPs will have to reconfigure to use a local
DS as UKf anyhow recommends. That would solve the original problem
reported here.

Thomas

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