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

From: Nicole Harris <harris AT terena.org>
To: Leif Johansson <leifj AT sunet.se>
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 13:32:48 +0100
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> On 29 Jun 2014, at 13:29, Leif Johansson <leifj AT sunet.se> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>

That's one way of interpreting it. I'm afraid most of the dialogue
around it actually sees this as a permission and rights decision, not
one of reciprocity.

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