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

(resending... airport wifi problems)

> On 1 Dec 2014, at 08:20, Glenn Wearen <glenn.wearen AT heanet.ie> wrote:
> 
> However, I’ve looked at a few of these services and accessing them takes 
> you straight NCL’s IdP with no DS, furthermore you can judge for yourself 
> by the entityID’s that many of these are internal apps.

That seems fairly clear, thanks for looking into it.

> Are Federations encouraging institutions to take their private services out 
> of eduGAIN where the federation operates on the opt-out model?

On the UKf side, we haven't made a recommendation like that yet, although I 
agree it's worth at least considering. We don't encourage the registration of 
local entities in general, but we haven't gone as far as actively 
discouraging it either, and that might be a cleaner approach all round. A lot 
will depend on why local entities are being registered at the federation 
level, and to find that out I think we'll need to talk to the institutions 
concerned.

   -- Ian

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