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

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Oh, and does "(don't use without verification!)" require any
explanation of what is expected of potential user?

Cheers,
Niels



On 13-01-15 11:12, Nicole Harris wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I spoke to the edugain team and the suggestion is to make: 
> https://wiki.edugain.org/isFederatedCheck/ the authoritative
> source (click on the "all known federations" link to see the
> federation information) with the aim to embed this tool in eduGAIN
> technical site toolkit properly in the future.  So a good
> opportunity to make sure that the information is correct and to add
> information about edugain to your metadata page if it is not
> already there.
> 
> Hope that helps
> 
> Nicole
> 
> On 12/01/2015 16:48, 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.
>> 
>> I wouldn't recommend going any further than that; if something
>> isn't obvious to our member from the page you link to them, they
>> should come and talk to our helpdesk.
>> 
>> -- Ian
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 


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