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[Peter Schober <peter.schober AT univie.ac.at>]

* Glenn Wearen <glenn.wearen AT heanet.ie> [2014-11-28 14:51]:
> For the federations using opt-out, have you made any efforts to
> promote private campus services to opt-out?
> I know this was discussed in the context of discovery with DFN-AAI’a
> opt-out some time ago, but since the UK switch the problem is
> exacerbated.
> Take for example Newcastle University, it has exposed 100 entities,
> most of which are used by Newcastle only. I feel that at this rate
> we are going the limits of our IdP metadata processing limits
> (whether Shibboleth IdP’s or otherwise) sooner than I considered
> during the DFN discussion. 

We're not doing opt-out (yet), but let me say that I don't even expose
campus-interal SPs to the local identity federation, so consequently
they're not exposed to eduGAIN either.
-peter