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

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On 12-01-15 17:48, Ian Young wrote:
> 
>> On 12 Jan 2015, at 15:01, Niels van Dijk
>> <niels.vandijk AT surfnet.nl> wrote:
>> 
>> Perhaps even with a direct pointer to support pages. At SURFnet
>> we have this: https://support.surfconext.nl/edugain, I suspect
>> many federations have similar stuff. Basically I would like a
>> list of all these support pages I guess.
> 
> If there was a facility to register such a page with the eduGAIN OT
> for publication on the technical page or elsewhere then I think a
> lot of federations would be happy to register something. As you
> say, most of us probably have something very close to this
> already.
> 
> It might seem strange for me to support linking (say) a UKf support
> page intended to inform our members about eduGAIN from an eduGAIN
> page -- after all, they could surely find that on our site -- but I
> think I take your point that if the person who is talking to you is
> not fully informed then your pointing them at our documentation
> cuts a few corners and perhaps helps to make the experience more
> pleasant.
> 

Indeed, from the perspective of the SP wanting to inform the IdP how
to use the service it would be very convenient to be able to point to
1 location, not having to deal with changing locations of
documentation for various federations.

Cheers,
Niels


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