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[Martin Matthiesen <martin.matthiesen AT csc.fi>]

Hi,

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Leif Johansson" <leifj AT sunet.se>
> To: edugain-discuss AT geant.net
> Sent: Monday, 1 December, 2014 13:00:25
> Subject: Re: [eduGAIN-discuss] eduGAIN and non "academic" IdPs

>> 
>> That is also my experience. The question is, should it stay that way. It 
>> might
>> be enough and then it might be helpful to stress that in official 
>> documents.
>> This is yet another reason for me to concentrate on attributes and not 
>> make up a
>> second front on entity categories.
>> 
> 
> This is a more interesting discussion. Basically its what Fredrik Åslund
> just proposed: introduce a new affiliation which has no 'baggage'

To make it clear, I did not suggest a new affiliation value. In my view an 
"eduPerson*" attribute implies "academic". I argued for reliable 
implementation of attributes, one first step could indeed be to agree on the 
semantics of eduPersonAffiliation. "employee" vs "student" as the lowest 
common denominator would certainly work for me, if "employee" is only given 
to academic staff and thus would be compatible with Clarin ACA.
 
Martin