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[Leif Johansson <leifj AT sunet.se>]

> 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
> 

Yeah I got that but I'm not sure its true. Remember that edugain is for
more than sharing "academic" services. A lot of services are made to be
accessible to the general employee population and to loosely affiliated
members of a university. This makes hard to make the assumption you
rely on.

        Cheers Leif