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[Davide Vaghetti <davide.vaghetti AT garr.it>]

Hi Niels,

On 09/05/19 12:17, Niels van Dijk wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We have a number of entity categories in our portfolio like CoCo, R&S
> and Sirtfi.
> 
> Knowing a federation supports these could be helpful in getting these
> adopted by entities, as then for example a research collaboration could
> suggest to the entity to behave as their peers in the federation are
> doing. But how do I find out if a federation actually supports these?
> Clearly, once I find an entity in metadata that has one or more, I know
> it must be supported by the federation. But if I see none or a few, I
> cannot know if this is because the entities are not using them, or if
> this is the federation lacking support.
> 

It makes sense.

> Would it be useful to have federation make known which entity categories
> they support in some automated fashion (other then by filling in the
> REFEDs wiki yearly)?

Yes, it would, or at least to make that information available through
either MET or the eduGAIN database, or both. In the case of the eduGAIN
database, would it be useful to expose the supported ECs via the current
APIs?

Cheers,
Davide

> 
> many thanks,
> 
> Niels
> 

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Davide Vaghetti
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