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[Nicole Harris <harris AT terena.org>]

As far as I understand it that is a link to the upstream feed.  I think Niels wants the downstream...but I could be wrong :-)  I was talking more about the practices around approaches taken to publishing downstream metadata back to local members. 

On 12/01/2015 13:56, Chris Phillips wrote:

This sounds like it's already done:  http://www.edugain.org/technical/status.php
Note that the 'technical' link is absent not prominent from the main edugain website. It's buried in the FAQ section under 'Where is eduGAIN is available?' 
I do agree with the 'contact the home federation' statements for the reasons given..but we can certainly make it a bit easier on all if the technical status link were more visible.
Is it what you were looking for Nicole?
Chris.


From: Nicole Harris <harris AT terena.org>
Date: Monday, January 12, 2015 at 8:41 AM
To: Mikael Linden <Mikael.Linden AT csc.fi>, Niels van Dijk <niels.vandijk AT surfnet.nl>, "edugain-discuss AT geant.net" <edugain-discuss AT geant.net>
Subject: Re: [eduGAIN-discuss] Locations for 'local' eduGAIN metadata

On 12/01/2015 13:32, Mikael Linden wrote:
> Hi Niels,
>
> In Finland we don’t even have a "one-fits-all" local eduGAIN feed. Instead,
> the Finnish IdP/SP admin logs in to our metadata management UI and
> "subscribes" those peer entities in eduGAIN they are interested in (e.g. IdP
> admins subscribe all CoCo-SPs in eduGAIN, SP admins subscribe the IdPs whose
> LoA floor is good enough) and the metadata management tool generates a
> tailored metadata feed for him.
>
> So I second Peter: " all you should do is tell them to talk to their local
> federation operator"

I'd agree on this but perhaps suggest that edugain could also maintain a list of metadata publication statements in the future, as well as metadata registration.  I think we are at a point where being able to easily find the publication approaches for interfederation feeds is quite important. 

>
> Cheers
> mikael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Niels van Dijk [mailto:niels.vandijk AT surfnet.nl]
> Sent: 12. tammikuuta 2015 14:37
> To: edugain-discuss AT geant.net
> Subject: [eduGAIN-discuss] Locations for 'local' eduGAIN metadata
>

Hi all,

I'm setting up 2 services for eduGAIN. As part of my documentation I would
like to point the IdPs to the 'local' eduGAIN metadata feed of their
national federation, which should at some point will contain the metadata of
my services.

However, I note there does not seem to be a list of locations where this
local metadata is published, it is everywhere and nowhere in local
documentation oracles. Would creating such a list be something eduGAIN could
pick up?

Cheers,
Niels

>
>

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-- 
Nicole Harris
Project Development Officer
GÉANT Association Amsterdam Office (formerly TERENA)
Singel 468 D, 1017 AW Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Skype: harrisnv
M:+31 64 610 53 95