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[Nicole Harris <harris AT terena.org>]

On 05/02/2014 18:00, Jan Tomášek wrote:
> On 02/05/2014 05:26 PM, Brook Schofield wrote:
> > On 5 February 2014 17:06, Jan Tomášek <jan.tomasek AT cesnet.cz
> > <mailto:jan.tomasek AT cesnet.cz>> wrote:
> >
> >     At this point I have to admit that my interest come from fact that
> >     this broke our automatic central discovery we are running here. We
> >     had complain from some SP admin that we are offering IdP which are
> >     not in eduGAIN metadata stream.
> >
> >
> > can you clarify this? It looks like you're saying that your eduID.cz
> > Central Discovery is publishing IdPs that you get from neither eduID.cz
> > nor eduGAIN?
>
> Our central DS is downloading also UK federation's metadata. True 
> reason is lost in past and Milan Sova can not tell us any more why he 
> configured it this way. I can try to guess:
>
> 1) he had ambition to offer this service to wider community than only 
> eduID.cz members
> 2) he needed more testing material to test all software involved
>
> Used logic is:
> a) take entityID of SP which is using DS
> b) get list of federations where entityID is present
> c) offer list of all IdP's from all that federations
>
> We can remove UK federation or limit automatic functions only to 
> eduID.cz and eduGAIN entities. But still...

Um, I'd suggest not that you 'can' do this, but that you SHOULD.  As you 
are not a member of the UK federation, you don't really have any right 
to be using their metadata.

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