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[Glenn Wearen <glenn.wearen AT heanet.ie>]

Well, I had asked that the UKf operate two WAYF’s one for it’s non-eduGAIN 
SP’s (listing it’s local IdPs) and another for SP’s that had opted into 
eduGAIN showing all IdP’s but was turned down on that request.
Glenn

On 7 Jul 2014, at 11:38, Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl> wrote:

> Hi Glenn,
> you seem to assume that none of you IdPs will ever want to be listed in the 
> UK WAIF. What if they want to use an SP that does point to this WAIF and 
> that SP would actually work for them? I really think that if we now start 
> bilateral agreements on who exports what, then we may just as well shut 
> eduGAIN down.
> 
> Tomasz
> 
> 
> W dniu 2014-07-07 12:30, Glenn Wearen 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.
>> Could you remove the Irish institutions from the UKf wayf but leave them 
>> in your metadata? I know there’ll still be problems with SP’s who operate 
>> their own DS, but the UKf must account for half of all discoveries?
>> 
>> I don’t mind reaching out UKf SP’s to remove Irish institutions from their 
>> DS’s, I’ll also have to reach out to SP’s who operate in eduGAIN that are 
>> listing Irish institutions under the UK federation like the Terena SP.
>> 
>> Glenn
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