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[Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>]

Hi Niels,
  we took it into account that there may be multiple federations, this is why the identifiers have a country possibly followed by a dash and more letters (but we could also allow numbers if this becomes reasonable). If we ever get a federation which is a multinational, the we can give it an EDU code or whatever. For the time being and for the current eduGAIN needs the country codes are good enough and simple to use.  Federation operator names and federation names change. One operator may run multiple federations etc.
Since yesterday, pages like http://technical.edugain.org/federation_entities.php?type=sp&code=CH get a title and this uses the federation name rather then a country.

I do not think that it is really important what the codes are, they are for building static links, not something that a user is supposed to guess. If needed, I can publish a code mapping somewhere.

Tomasz

W dniu 2015-02-05 o 23:41, Niels van Dijk pisze:
> Hi Tomasz,
>
>
> Cool stuff! Just a remark that a country may have multiple federations
> that are/could become members of eduGAIN (e.g. because there is a R&E
> and a K12 federation, as we have in NL) Therefore it might be better
> to use the federation operator as Lukas suggested..
>
> keep up the good work!
>
> Cheers,
> Niels
>
>
> On 04-02-15 12:50, Tomasz Wolniewicz wrote:
> > Here you are:
> > http://technical.edugain.org/federation_entities.php?type=sp&code=CH
>
> >  This is quick and dirty. Perhaps this is enough. If you would want
> > the original page, then this would be a bit more work as I would
> > need to set all selections and checkboxes.
>
> > type can be one of: all, sp, idp, aa no setting is the same as
> > all, anything else causes a silent exit.
>
> > code is our internal federation code which has to be of form
> > /^[A-Z]+-?[A-Z]*$/. This is always the country code, followed
> > possibly by a dash and more uppercase letters. For now we just have
> > country codes.
>
> > More arguments:
>
> > entity_cat= followed by the URI of the category  (or 1 meaning any
> > category set)
>
> > ec=1 or ec=0  (entity category selected or not - default 1)
>
> > ecs=1 or ecs=0  (entity category selected or not - default 1)
>
> > Tomasz
>
>
> > W dniu 2015-02-04 o 11:44, Lukas Hämmerle pisze:
> >> On 03.02.15 21:52, Tomasz Wolniewicz wrote:
> >>> I'm back with the entities view. On
> >>> http://technical.edugain.org/entities.php there is a new
> >>> version where we have tried to implement the many good I ideas
> >>> I received from this list.
> >> Very nice, looks quite good already, thanks :-)
> >>
> >> One wish I (and probably others have) would be to have the
> >> possiblity to reference to a page with GET arguments. E.g.
> >> http://technical.edugain.org/entities.php?type=sp&federation=SWITCHaai
> >>
> >>
> >>
> Best Regards
> >> Lukas
> >>
>
>
>

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