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[Leif Johansson <leifj AT sunet.se>]

On 2014-10-29 17:00, Lukas Hämmerle wrote:
> On 29.10.14 16:16, Andy Bennett wrote:
>> Some federations insist on releasing all the requested attributes and
>> if you request one they're not happy with then they release nothing.
> 
> I wonder how many federations are in this category... Any numbers?
> Wouldn't it be easier to kindly ask them to change their behaviour
> instead of investing a lot of time in
> specification/implementation/deployment of a new meta attribute that is
> only mitigating and not solving the problem really (see below)?

Thats the wrong question to ask.

The right question is this: how many services will have this problem?

The answer is probably (today) the size of the edugain SP list plus the
top non-interfederated services in MET.

        Cheers Leif