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[Olivier Salaün <olivier.salaun AT renater.fr>]

Hi Tom,

Maybe you missed the first part of my email.
I'm concerned about non production IdPs published in eduGAIN metadata.

As a matter of fact some of these IdPs are tagged as "hide-from-discovery". It makes me think that the registering federation identified that these are not production IdPs, but still published these SAML entities in their eduGAIN upstream file.

The B2B use case is sound like a legitimate for "hide-from-discovery" tagging. I'm more puzzled when it comes to Test IdPs...

Le 16/04/2015 15:02, Tom Scavo a écrit :

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.

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