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[Valeriu Vraciu <valeriu AT roedu.net>]

Removed that statement from website too.

On 14/03/19 14:14, Stefan Winter wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>> Removed this requirement related to uniqueness of IdP per institution.
>> There can be large entities that have several components, each one with
>> own authentication systems (thinking about the Romanian Academy which
>> has many institutes, but maybe community has other examples ?).
> 
> Your website still states that only one IdP per participant is allowed:
> 
> https://eduid.roedu.net/membership/
> 
> "In order to maintain consistency, only one IdP per institution is
> accepted."
> 
> On the substance of the question, it's probably a wise idea to change
> the website to be in line with a policy that *allows* multiple IdPs per
> participant.
> 
> One trivial example (which I see occuring in real life) is that an
> organisation wants to upgrade/switch their IdP software without
> endangering production use. They would typically add a "testing" IdP
> alongside the production one for a while.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Stefan Winter
> 

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Valeriu Vraciu
RoEduNet

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