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[Ian Young <ian AT iay.org.uk>]

On 7 Jul 2014, at 12:10, Peter Schober <peter.schober AT univie.ac.at> wrote:

> I suspect that some of those SPs that are
> member of the UKfederation are simply not aware that this now means
> "something else" to some degree (i.e., there are now non-UKf entities
> in what thought was the UKf metadata feed).

We have certainly tried to make this clear to our members. It's possible 
that, as you say, some may still not be aware of it. I suspect it is more 
likely that most simply don't regard it as something they need to do anything 
about until it turns out to be a problem *for them*.

> Which is why every IDP within eduGAIN now pops up in their (or the UKf's 
> central, or
> TERENA's) discovery interface as being part of the "UK Federation".

Well, the behaviour of the UKf Central Discovery Service is intentional, not 
due to lack of awareness by some of our members. I don't know that there's 
much in our CDS UI that promotes the idea that things listed there are "part 
of" the UK federation, either.

> The assumption that this only holds UKf entities simply doesn't hold
> anymore.

Agreed.

        -- Ian

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