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

* Rhys Smith <Rhys.Smith AT jisc.ac.uk> [2014-12-01 11:26]:
> > On 1 Dec 2014, at 10:07, Kristof Bajnok <bajnokk AT niif.hu> wrote:
> > I don't want to hijack the thread, however, 'employee' and 'staff' are
> > deprecated by the eduGAIN Attribute Profile.
> 
> Is it? Where is that documented?
> https://wiki.edugain.org/IDP_Attribute_Profile:_recommended_attributes
> doesn’t mention that.

Kristof's statement is corrrect content-wise (those two affiliations
"should probably not be used") but the reference is wrong, it's not
from the optional eduGAIN Attribute Profile, but from the REFEDS ePSA
white paper:
REFEDS home page -> Our work -> White papers: "ePSA paper [October 2009]"
http://www.terena.org/activities/refeds/docs/ePSAcomparison_0_13.pdf

> UK IdPs will be pretty much exclusively using member / staff /
> student.

That does doesn't make use of "staff" more consistent and
interoperable internationally.
-peter