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[Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>]

Hi Niels,
    Whenever it comes to displaing information about individuals, I'm 
always reluctant, especially in a format that is easily harvested. Also 
in some cases federation administrators explicitly asked that their 
mails not be included on the status page.

I would say that for any automated notification system you should only 
use the official federation contact, which is provided in my output. If 
you need more then you would have to do this manually (i.e. use the 
status page) and with a proper consideration. If I have an official 
matter to a federation operator I *always* use the generic contact 
email, only if this does not get replied to, I could use an individual 
SG representative mail.

Membership status - this is always "member". I do not inform about 
non-members, I do not see any reason why I should. They are not 
providing matadata to eduGAIN, therefore cannot be a part to any eduGAIN 
related problem.

Tomasz



W dniu 2014-08-04 11:05, Niels van Dijk pisze:
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> Thanks all for your feedback.
>
> I agree that if the info is hosted on a trusted domain like
> edugain.org there is no need to create a SAML stream for it. It might
> be nice however to put a pointer to
> http://www.edugain.org/technical/status.php in the eduGAIN metadata,
> as that provides just the kind of context one would need.
>
> I would prefer not to do "screen scraping" a GUI, but what Tomasz
> suggerst would work just fine I would think.
>
> @Tomasz: Nice! The only think missing for my usecase is I think is the
> 'displaynames' and emails of the delegate and deputy. Is it a problem
> to just publish all of the data in a json format? ANd is it possible
> to include the membership status as well? (Sorry if this sounds like
> dumping a shopping list....)
>
> Many thanks!
> Niels
>
>
>
> On 01-08-14 14:17, Tomasz Wolniewicz wrote:
> > You can try:
> > http://www.edugain.org/technical/federation_details.php?regAuth=http://www.surfconext.nl/
> >
> >
> >
> > Anything else you would like to see in the output?
> >
> >
> > Tomasz
> >
> > W dniu 2014-08-01 11:50, Ian Young pisze:
> > > On 1 Aug 2014, at 10:43, Peter Schober
> > > <peter.schober AT univie.ac.at> wrote:
> > >
> > > > For 1, 2 and 3: Use the registered federation identifier from
> > > > @registrationAuthority as a key to uniquely identify the
> > > > federation at this page:
> > > > http://www.edugain.org/technical/status.php Which will also
> > > > give you the official contacts for each federation, both with a
> > > > role address as well as the eduGAIN Steering Group delegate and
> > > > deputy.
> > > That was my immediate reaction too. Having some kind of
> > > machine-readable feed of the status page information would
> > > probably address most of the use cases, or could be extended to
> > > include them. Putting the information inside the SAML metadata
> > > seems like an uncomfortable fit by comparison.
> > >
> > > -- Ian
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