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Re: [eduGAIN-discuss] eduGAIN and non "academic" IdPs

From: Leif Johansson <leifj AT sunet.se>
To: Martin Matthiesen <martin.matthiesen AT csc.fi>
Cc: edugain-discuss AT geant.net
Subject: Re: [eduGAIN-discuss] eduGAIN and non "academic" IdPs
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 14:22:46 +0100
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> Not to mention other countries. It would be nice to at least have a country
> wide agreement on the semantics. And the Swedish one seems boiled down
> enough that most countries should be able to agree on the semantics? It
> seems UK uses "employee" where other use "staff", but it also uses
> "faculty", thus I could define: Clarin ACA == (EPA == "faculty" if used by
> federation, like UK), (EPA == "employee", otherwise). (EPA=="faculty" will
> grant ACA access in any case.) I am trying to slice the elephant here...
>

Been there, tried that. Not going back.

Re: [eduGAIN-discuss] eduGAIN and non "academic" IdPs, (continued)