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[Niels van Dijk <niels.vandijk AT surfnet.nl>]

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Hi all,

Reading through the eduGAIN metdata requirements (Which I think live
here:
http://services.geant.net/edugain/Resources/Documents/eduGAIN_metadata_profile_v3.doc)

I get the impression we have done our best to make IdP discovery as
hard as possible:

- - We do not require a display name for an IdP at all, neither in the
native language nor in English.
- - We do not require a logo; actually the logo is not even mentioned in
the document as a could/should. As such there is no recommendation on
size and on the way to present it (url vs embedded).

Basically, when literally interpreting the mandatory parts of the
spec, the only reasonable thing for an SP to do is to fall back to
presenting the entityID. Typically not something a user will
understand intuitively...

I understand that we may want to keep the level of entry as low as
possible but what users get served by an IdP they cannot find in a
discovery? Or am I missing something here?

thanks!
Niels


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