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

* Mikael Linden <mikael.linden AT csc.fi> [2014-11-28 16:58]:
> We should provide scalable mechanisms for SPs (better than "read
> their MRPS") to filter out the IdPs. We have Entity categories for
> SPs, can't we introduce them for IdPs as well?

The devil is in the details. I claim that CLARIN (or CLARIN.cz)
doesn't have a sufficiently clear defintion of what they want that
simply needs to be operationalized by federations the world over.

> Or use eduPersonAffiliation for academics.

Last time I asked CLARIN wasn't even using affiliations, i.e. they did
not even look at whether an account had an affiliation at all.

But of course, of any of the existing affiliation values gave CLARIN
the info they needed, that's the obvious thing to do/use.
And if none of the exiting values seems right, feel free to propose a
new value.

> We shouldn't shoot down a brave customer when he comes to us and
> asks us to improve our service.

Sure! More people relying on or trying to use eduGAIN should be
participating in edugain-discuss.
-peter