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[Lukas Hämmerle <lukas.haemmerle AT switch.ch>]

On 29.06.14 16:12, Peter Schober wrote:
> As I've learned very recently some eduGAIN member federations do not
> in fact provide their members with eduGAIN metadata themself

That is indeed a problem. The question here is: Why don't they do it?
Because they:
* don't want to (due to extra effort)?
* cannot do it technically?
* did not know that this was not recommended?



> * Operational complexity for the eduGAIN-OT: So far should the OT ever
>   decide to perform a signing key rollover it has to coordinate this
>   with the eduGAIN member federations.

This will be pretty soon the case btw. as the eduGAIN signer cert
expires on Aug 1 18:43:32 2014 GMT... But as far as I know Tomasz and
Maya are aware of this and working on that.


Best Regards
Lukas

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