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[Peter Schober <peter.schober AT univie.ac.at>]

* Lukas Hämmerle <lukas.haemmerle AT switch.ch> [2014-07-02 11:37]:
> On 02.07.14 11:23, Peter Schober wrote:
> > I'm a bit unhappy with some of the (obviously well-intended)
> > things happening in the eduGAIN wiki, at 
> > https://wiki.edugain.org/isFederatedCheck/ which I discovered just
> > now.
> 
> It's still work in progress and there is a reason why this tool has
> not been widely announced yet :-) So, feedback like this is welcome.

OK. I just stumbled across it looking for something else.

> To be fair, many pages on the Federations Wiki are out-dated. So, a
> lot of handwork was needed to get the URLs in some cases (for the
> other's including ACONets I used the ones that Brook's catalog uses).

I think I told brook to update the URLs and the name used there (the
federation has not been using the "AAI" moniker for 3 years now, I
think). Since many of us are in fact collecting non-eduGAIN metadata
aggregates (for different purposes) that's a somewhat common issue, at
least common among people writing such tools
(cg. https://wayf.aco.net/smev/ ) ;)
I don't have a suggestion clearly superior other than the RFEDS
Federation, and that has already been announced to be turned off at
point (which was revoked later).

> Good point. Easy to fix. Main idea was to provide this for debugging
> purposes.
> 
> I removed it.

Thanks. If others are happy with this you can just remove eduID.at
from there but then you can't claim to have "all known academic
identity federations" in there. ;)
(Maybe "All known acedemic identity federations except for one small
village of Gauls...").

> The reason for that was exactly to find the issues you mentioned above
> ("you are not using our correct metadata"). Option would be to instead
> link to an official metadata page where all that information can be found.

We provide just that in the REFEDS Federation Survey.
Best regards,
-peter