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

* Glenn Wearen <glenn.wearen AT heanet.ie> [2014-07-02 12:46]:
> There seems to be an assumption that it’s the FO's job to get one of
> his/her member IdP's to sign up to eduGAIN at the request of an SP
> from another federation. Why can’t the SP can make contact with the
> IdP admin (if the local fed ToU allows) and point him/her in the
> direction of his IT department?

Because the FOP wants to support its constituency as good as possible?

Because an IDP that is not participating in eduGAIN is Doing It Wrong?
(I.e., not supporting its own users properly)

> Putting the FO in the communication channel between SP’s and IdP’s
> is not scaleable IMO.

The unusual take on how hierarchies do not HELP scale better aside,
it's the FOP that knows about eduGAIN and Interfederation and
everything else, and so is best positioned to support its community in
that?

My 2¢,
-peter