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[Leif Johansson <leifj AT sunet.se>]

> this and adapt ECCS. As you say, this would however mean that each IdP
> currently would be hammered more than a thousand requests per day

good!

> because m=1466 as of today :-) I know at lesat from our Danish
> colleagues that this might ruin their statistics if not handles properly.
> 

just add an extension to the authnrequest saying this is a probe

> Another option could be that the ECCS REST/JSON API is extended to check
> a particular IdP-SP combination and return the check results.
> 

this would introduce too much delay for the applications I've been
thinking about - its more important that the API returns quickly
then that the test is 100% fresh IMO

> 
> @Marco (ECCS lead developer): Feel free to add/comment on what you think
> of this.
> 
> Best Regards
> Lukas
> 
> [1] https://technical.edugain.org/eccs/
>     https://wiki.edugain.org/EduGAIN_Connectivity_Check
>