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[Lalla Maria Laura Mantovani <marialaura.mantovani AT garr.it>]

At 18:05 07/07/2014, Ian Young wrote:

> Mon Jul 07 18:19:16 2014
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> On 7 Jul 2014, at 16:42, Lalla Maria Laura Mantovani 
> <marialaura.mantovani AT garr.it> wrote:
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> > I'm thinking that a possibility to balance the metadata exchange 
> is to import in the edugain2idem metadata stream also all the SPs 
> present in the UKfederation. Unless you want to register all your 
> SPs in eduGAIN.
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> We do want to shift from opt-in to opt-out for both our IdPs and 
> SPs. One reason we have held back from that so far is the number of 
> entities involved (726 IdPs and 965 SPs). I don't think we know what 
> would happen if the eduGAIN aggregate suddenly jumped in size by 
> that much and we don't want to break anything. Initiatives like your 
> own federation moving from opt-in to opt-out for IdPs will help 
> build confidence in metadata exchange on a larger scale, I think.
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> We have recently been discussing how to move forward with this. It 
> might be useful for us to consider whether we could pilot some of 
> these changes with your help by providing you with a more 
> substantial export aggregate than the one we currently provide to eduGAIN.
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> We had been considering excluding SAML 1-only entities from any such 
> experiments. I note, however, that the SP you've had the problem 
> with doesn't support SAML 2.0, so we may need to take another look at that.
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> Let me know if this sounds interesting; we will have another 
> discussion here and get back to you off-list.

Yes, this is interesting.
lalla


>         -- Ian