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Re: [eduGAIN-discuss] Locations for 'local' eduGAIN metadata

From: Tom Scavo <trscavo AT internet2.edu>
To: Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>
Cc: "edugain-discuss AT geant.net" <edugain-discuss AT geant.net>
Subject: Re: [eduGAIN-discuss] Locations for 'local' eduGAIN metadata
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 13:37:36 -0500
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl> wrote:
>
> W dniu 15.01.2015 o 16:54, Tom Scavo pisze:
>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl> wrote:
>>> http://technical.edugain.org/entities.php shows the listing of eduGAIN
>>> entities with various possibilities of filtering. This is still work in
>>> progress, but any comments are welcome.
>>
>> Can you please use MDUI DisplayName instead of MD OrganizationDisplayName?
>
> This actually is one of the things on the TODO list.

Thank you.

> For each of the languages I will show MDUI DisplayName if exists in a
> given language and OrganizationDisplayName (for the given language)
> otherwise.

For IdPs, this makes sense, but for SPs, it does not. Falling back to
OrgDisplayName for SPs only serves to perpetuate a very bad practice
IMO.

Tom

Re: [eduGAIN-discuss] Locations for 'local' eduGAIN metadata, (continued)