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["Rustam T. Usmanov" <rustam AT unilib.spbstu.ru>]

В письме от 27.07.18 13:47 пользователь Rhys Smith написал:

> Federation Policy:
> 
> 
> Basically, and this is a big one - I think the whole document needs to be
> rewritten to sort out the terminology in use.
 
> You define a Service Provider as an organisation. That’s a bit confusing,
> because Identity provider and Service provider are specific SAML roles than
> a particular organisation can have, rather than organisations in of
> themselves.
 
> Throughout this whole policy document this means this all gets confusing
> when you talk about “Identity Providers” and “Service Providers” -
> sometimes you’re referring to the SAML roles (e.g. "a Federation Member can
> act as a Home Organization and/or a Service Provider”), sometimes as
> organisations ("Identity Providers and Service Providers are able to join
> or leave the Federation”).
 
> Would suggest you keep “Identity Provider” and “Service Provider” as the
> SAML roles, and either talk about organisations joining the federation and
> being able to deploy those SAML roles, or if you really consider
> organisations that provide identity and organisations that provider
> services as different, then use different naming to clarify things.

Changed some wordings with regard to these remarks.

> Other smaller stuff:
> 
> * You mention a fees appendix, this doesn’t exist.

Added fees appendix.

Updated Federation Policy is available at
http://www.fedurus.ru/doc/FEDURUS%20Identity%20Federation%20Policy
%20v0.2.2_en.pdf

Sincerely,
Rustam
-- 
Rustam Usmanov, systems engineer
Library Information Systems Center,
Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University
Address:  29, Politekhnitcheskaya str., St.Petersburg, 195251, Russia
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