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[Alex Stuart <alex.stuart AT ed.ac.uk>]

On 10/02/2015 12:56, Alex Stuart wrote:
> On 10/02/2015 12:25, Lukas Hämmerle wrote:
> > On 10.02.15 13:00, Glenn Wearen wrote:
> > > Am I imagining it or have we lost about 400 SP’s since 2-3 months
> > > back? I seem to recall we had 1500 SP’s at one point.
> > My guess would be that those are UK SPs that opted out, e.g. SPs that
> > are only used within a single organisation, thus SPs that forgot to
> > opt-out before the "big dump".
>
> The UK federation hasn't made any large-scale opt-outs for campus-only 
> SPs etc. and we still have approx 1000 SPs in the eduGAIN aggregate.
>
> I'm planning to ask a couple of the organizations that have many 
> registered SPs to opt-out their entities where possible, and will let 
> you know how we get on. However, I can't imagine that this will reduce 
> the number of UK-registered SPs by more than 150. And just for 
> context, we registered 21 SPs in January 2015 so any reduction in 
> numbers will be replaced within a few months.
The UK federation has just opted-out 92 SPs campus-only SPs from one UK 
university. This will propagate through the system in due course.

Alex


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