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[Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>]

Hi Lalla and Ian,
   I think that if we start doing things like messing with eduGAIN feed 
for whatever reason then we will very soon end up with no eduGAIN at all.

Ian, how do the members of your federation tell an eduGAIN entity form a 
proper UK Federation one? I would imagine that being a member of the UK 
Federation carries some additional guarantees for other UK members, 
therefore if I were a UK IDP I would much sooner release attributes to a 
UK registered SP then to a Polish one.

Assuming that SPs can tell which IDPs come from eduGAIN, I think that 
they should follow a requirement that before they start adding IDPs from 
eduGAIN they must first be exported to eduGAIN themselves. Without that 
we will have the mess that Lalla describes and this will actually hurt 
their image worse then that if the IDPs. Actually I do not see why a 
separate eduGAIN feed is a bad thing, but this is irrelevant here.

Tomasz


W dniu 2014-07-07 11:05, Ian Young pisze:
> > So please take away italian entities from the ukfederation metadata.
>
> We can do that if you request it, but it would mean that no UKf 
> entities AT ALL, whether opted in to eduGAIN or not, will see imported 
> entities from your federation. That doesn't sound to me like the best 
> solution.

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Tomasz Wolniewicz
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