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[Peter Schober <peter.schober AT univie.ac.at>]

* Jan Tomášek <jan.tomasek AT cesnet.cz> [2014-02-05 17:37]:
> And, is anywhere a list of national federations which are reasonably
> broken? ;)

I /think/ UKf and SWAMID are the only ones currently mixing in
interfederation entities with their existing respective aggregates.

I planned to do precicely that, too, but decided otherwise in the
end. In part to avoid "surprising" outcome like this, even though
others knew to "expect" this; in part because of all the things you
should (re-)consider when (inter-)federating changing the metadata URL
seemed the least problematic/difficult to me; in part because of the
general reluctance I see in .at to join interfederation efforts,
meaning I don't expect to export a significant percentage of our
entities to eduGAIN anytime soon, and probably never for a 100% export
(the UKf aim, AFAIU).
But then again, the UKf has 20 times our number of entities to take
care of. I guess that does change your view on what's achievable (and
what "short term" means).
-peter