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[Tom Scavo <trscavo AT internet2.edu>]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 4:55 AM, Peter Schober
<peter.schober AT univie.ac.at> wrote:
>
> So I would suggest the following (eduPerson affiliation values):
>
> * Require just "member", if you're fine with students being included
>
> * Require "member AND NOT student" if you're not fine with students
>
> * If for some reason that's all unacceptable, require "faculty" and
>   find ways how to deal with those not sending it (e.g. by accepting
>   "staff" instead, as the UKfed and eduID.at use that to include
>   faculty).

If we're talking about <RequestedAttribute> elements in metadata, then
there's also the nagging problem that you can only use
eduPersonAffiliation in conjunction with specific values. For example,
the following element is incorrect:

<RequestedAttribute FriendlyName="eduPersonScopedAffiliation"
      Name="urn:mace:dir:attribute-def:eduPersonScopedAffiliation"
      NameFormat="urn:mace:shibboleth:1.0:attributeNamespace:uri">
  <saml:AttributeValue>member</saml:AttributeValue>
</RequestedAttribute>

since member is a scoped attribute. AFAIK, there's no way to work around that.

Tom