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[Kristof Bajnok <bajnokk AT niif.hu>]

On 2014-11-28 16:47, Kristof Bajnok wrote:
> On 2014-11-28 16:01, Tom Scavo wrote:
>> A question for other responders: I'm not getting the connection to
>> Research & Scholarship. AFAIK there is nothing in the spec to restrict
>> an arbitrary IdP from self-declaring its support for R&S. Am I missing
>> something?
> 
> Obviously no, that needs to be defined as another category.

Sorry, the ambiguous 'that' in my sentence refers to a new category that
would contain the "academic IdPs".

> But IMO it would be much more complex than R&S was. R&S category
> authorises an SP is to allow access to some basic attributes. 

>From the R&S Support IdPs, and only in certain circumstances.

> The new
> category would authorise the IdP's users to get higher level access at
> some (unknown) service providers.

Given I have understood Jozef right about the needs of some of their SPs.

Kristof