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

> On 28 Nov 2014, at 13:49, Glenn Wearen <glenn.wearen AT heanet.ie> wrote:
> 
> Take for example Newcastle University, it has exposed 100 entities, most of 
> which are used by Newcastle only.

I'm not saying you're wrong (I suspect you're right) but I'd be interested to 
hear how you know that to be the case. Newcastle don't tell us which entities 
are Newcastle-only, and we don't try to guess.

Newcastle were an early and enthusiastic adopter of federated identity, long 
before there were really any tools available to help with local metadata 
management. We used to joke that the UK federation was really the "federation 
of Cal (Racey)" in the early days. So I'm sure that it was true then that 
Newcastle registered entities with the UKf in the early days that they really 
didn't need to, because that simplified their adoption process.

There are only a few other institutions in the UKf where you might be 
likewise suspicious, and most of those are down to being national data 
centres and the like (i.e., legitimately running services for the community). 
It isn't a widespread practice.

    -- Ian

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