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[Peter Schober <peter.schober AT univie.ac.at>]

* Peter Schober <peter.schober AT univie.ac.at> [2015-01-13 17:53]:
> While I can acknowledge that SPs may want to try to help their
> potential customers getting access to their services, I do think that
> none of our other metadata and security specifics are any of eduGAIN's
> business (not to document and not to re-publish), esp if that leads to
> unsuspecting but clueless people copying metadata URLs from such lists
> and provising those into their software, thinking they are using (secure)
> federation technology (as intended). When all they have is a 1st row
> seat in security theater.

And they could even claim to have been following "the documentation":
"I got the metadata (URL) from wiki.edugain.org...!"
-peter