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[Leif Johansson <leifj AT sunet.se>]

On 01/02/2015 12:38 PM, Brook Schofield wrote:
> Following up on Glenn's example... there are (at least) 19 services
> within eduGAIN that use Private IPv4 Addresses (RFC1918
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1918 ) and 14 are from Newcastle
> University (a further 4 seem to be from UK Federation).
> 
> They don't have a corresponding IPv6 address - so they are entirely
> internal to the organisational LAN or datacentre.
> 
> Maybe that is something else for federation operators to look at when
> deciding to publish entities to an interfederation environment.

+1

> 
> -Brook
> 
> 
> 
> On 28 November 2014 at 14:49, Glenn Wearen <glenn.wearen AT heanet.ie
> <mailto:glenn.wearen AT heanet.ie>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
>     For the federations using opt-out, have you made any efforts to
>     promote private campus services to opt-out?
>     I know this was discussed in the context of discovery with DFN-AAI’a
>     opt-out some time ago, but since the UK switch the problem is
>     exacerbated.
>     Take for example Newcastle University, it has exposed 100 entities,
>     most of which are used by Newcastle only. I feel that at this rate
>     we are going the limits of our IdP metadata processing limits
>     (whether Shibboleth IdP’s or otherwise) sooner than I considered
>     during the DFN discussion.
> 
>     Regards
> 
>     Glenn Wearen
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