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[Rhys Smith <Rhys.Smith AT jisc.ac.uk>]

(Resending from right address...)

On 1 Dec 2014, at 10:39, Peter Schober <peter.schober AT univie.ac.at> wrote:

* 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

Ah great, thanks. Forgot about that paper (5 years old!)

UK IdPs will be pretty much exclusively using member / staff /

student.

That does doesn't make use of "staff" more consistent and

interoperable internationally.

Not sure I can parse "does doesn't" :-). 

But don't get me wrong, not suggesting it's the "right" answer, it's just what the situation is (still, 5 years later) on the ground over here.

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