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[Leif Johansson <leifj AT sunet.se>]

On 2014-06-29 14:32, Nicole Harris wrote:
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> 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.
> 

Thats exactly what I want us to get away from!

Metadata wants to be free.

However, If you want me to *do* something with your metadata, you have
to ask nicely :-)

        Cheers Leif