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[Tom Scavo <trscavo AT internet2.edu>]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 7:57 AM, Olivier Salaün
<olivier.salaun AT renater.fr> wrote:
>
> Actually why do federation include such test IdPs in their eduGAIN upstream 
> metadata?

I don't think that's a valid conclusion. An IdP that is tagged
"hide-from-discovery" is (or should be) exactly what the spec says it
is, nothing more.

> Are their real use cases?

For exporting a "hide-from-discovery" IdP to eduGAIN? Sure. Suppose an
IdP registers with a federation to facilitate B2B (i.e., vendor)
interactions only. That IdP is neither willing nor able to handle
requests from arbitrary SPs, only those SPs for which it is has a
contract in place.

> Any chance these test IdPs would be removed from upstream eduGAIN metadata?

I don't think this is an eduGAIN issue nor is this a
"hide-from-discovery" issue. You seem to be talking about something
else altogether.

Tom