An open discussion list for topics related to the eduGAIN interfederation service.

[Thomas Lenggenhager <lenggenhager AT switch.ch>]

Regarding the discovery at interfederated publishers:
Many, if not most, of the publishers configure today a mapping between 
the internal representation of the license agreement and one or more 
entityIDs and/or a set of attributes and values. As a by product of that 
configuration, they add the institution to their local discovery service.
For these, not much changes with interfederation. 
http://iopscience.iop.org is one such example. The adapted the wording 
from 'UK Federation' to institutional login recently. The login button 
still reads 'Login via Shibboleth' :-(

Thomas

On 19.01.15 09:47, Peter Schober wrote:
> * yamaji AT nii.ac.jp <yamaji AT nii.ac.jp> [2015-01-15 08:48]:
> > > > This discussion is a little bit difficult for me, therefore, I would
> > > > like to focus on to the efficient keyrollover story.
> > >
> > > Difficult why?
> >
> > Since it's gonna be the interface story.
>
> So what are we gonna do about the fact that their UIs (at least,
> possibly also other processes) is broken when integrating with
> publishers via eduGAIN?
>
> Insist on them JEFOP (Joining Every Federation On the Planet) -- i.e.,
> conceding that eduGAIN is unusable with commercial publishers -- only
> because that's the traditional way we used to get them to amend their
> IDP discovery UI to actually include IDPs from payig subscribers?
>
> > > 2. Not a topic for the eduGAIN list but REEP isn't a production
> > >     service yet, AFAIK. The metadata signing key from REEP will change
> >
> > Supporting eduGAIN or REEP affect federation operation directly.
> > I would like to have further exchange at the mutual space.
> > Is it better to move on to the REFEDS ML?
>
> I specifically meant that discussing the current status quo of the
> REEP service (whether it should be considered a production quality
> system or not, etc.) is not a topic for this list.
> But yes, any REEP discussion should probably take place on REFEDS.
> No reason to restrict that to the eduGAIN community.
> -peter

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