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Re: [eduGAIN-discuss] Tool to monitor which IdP consumes your SP's metadata


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  • From: Leif Johansson <leifj AT sunet.se>
  • To: Nicole Harris <harris AT terena.org>
  • Cc: "edugain-discuss AT geant.net" <edugain-discuss AT geant.net>
  • Subject: Re: [eduGAIN-discuss] Tool to monitor which IdP consumes your SP's metadata
  • Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 14:29:35 +0200
  • List-archive: <https://mail.geant.net/mailman/private/edugain-discuss/>
  • List-id: eduGAIN discussion list <edugain-discuss.geant.net>

On 2014-06-29 13:02, Nicole Harris wrote:
> OK then so why do we bother with all this opt-in, opt-out, policies,
> processes, metadata for edugain then? If it doesn't matter who is
> taking metadata and what they are using it for then why don't we just
> have edugain consume all the federation metadata it can get it hands
> on from anywhere and leave it at that?

We bother with opt-in/opt-out because we want to take a reasonable stab
at getting reciprocity.






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