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[Sander Maijers <sander AT clarin.eu>]

Hi Peter,

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 12:24 AM, Peter Schober
<peter.schober AT univie.ac.at> wrote:
>
> * Wolfgang Pempe <pempe AT dfn.de> [2016-02-19 00:07]:
> > yes, that's the CLARIN ERIC. There's a special agreement with
> > DFN-AAI, that we monitor the CLARIN SPF metadata, apply any changes
> > to our federation registry (+ assign the requested Entity
> > Categories) and expose (almost) all SPs to eduGAIN.
>
> Which thankfully allows me to reverse that process: I autoamtically
> pull only the entityID values of the "CLARIN SPs" from their site, and
> copy all the entity descriptors that exist from the eduGAIN MDS into
> our local (non-interfederation-enabled) federation feed.
>
> While the CLARIN ERIC is a proper eduID.at federation member and can
> register SPs with us, that doesn't mean I have to duplicate the work
> other federation operators (from peer eduGAIN member federations) have
> already performed, which checking, amending and labelling.

Has someone demanded this of you? If not, why do you mention this?

> Pulling SAML Metadata automatically from CLARIN wasn't an option since
> (1) they didn't sign their metadata (may have changed, don't know) and

As I told you in person and is very easy to check we do sign the
respective SAML metadata batch since some time, not long after
establishing contact with your federation.

> (2) there was no MDRPS, and I took issue with some of their practices,
> esp wrt assigning R&S, w/o populating mdrpi:RegistrationInfo
> accordingly.

What do you mean with ‘accordingly’? You did not point this issue out
out based on this motivation. Good that I read this now then.

> Which is why you'll find a number of entities in our
> non-interfederation-enabled downsteam feed that carry a
> registrationAuthority value of (currently):
>
>   23 https://www.aai.dfn.de
>    2 http://www.csc.fi/haka
>    1 http://www.eduid.cz/
>    1 http://feide.no/
>
> Cheers,
> -peter

Best,
Sander
CLARIN SPF