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

From: Tom Scavo <trscavo AT internet2.edu>
To: "edugain-discuss AT geant.net" <edugain-discuss AT geant.net>
Subject: Re: [eduGAIN-discuss] Locations for 'local' eduGAIN metadata
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 09:08:56 -0500
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:30 AM, Peter Schober
<peter.schober AT univie.ac.at> wrote:
> * Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl> [2015-01-26 11:05]:
>
> https://wayf.aco.net/smev/

Another one! These UIs are starting to come out of the woodwork :-)

> I have the same issues with showing the XML I raised at
> the beginning of this thread: Displaying unsigned XML for easy
> copy&paste usage seems to encourage the wrong behaviour.
> Noone should be fetching XML from there, IMO, so why display it?

Good point, I hadn't thought of that, and I tend to agree.

This becomes a non-issue once implementations of the Metadata Query
Protocol are deployed. In that case, a link to the entity's signed
EntityDescriptor should be straightforward.

Tom

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