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[Nicole Harris <nicole.harris AT geant.org>]

> On 9 May 2019, at 12:35, Peter Schober <peter.schober AT univie.ac.at> wrote:
> 
> * Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl> [2019-05-09 13:30]:
>> Of course it is way easier to start with the DB itself, so we will dig
>> out this info and make it available in the federation details view and
>> the show_federation API call. This will not be done right away though,
>> but if you are not in a lot of hurry then it will be done.
> 
> Niels' point was that looking at the existing metadata does not tell
> you whether federation A does not category X in general/principal or
> whether they simple don't have any entities in that category in their
> eduGAIN export feed at this time.
> 
> The only point of looking at existing metadata (or the eduGAIN
> database) would be to reduce the set of federations having to talk to
> asking them whether what categories they do [not] support and why not.

Very much support this.  We also have a problem where a federation may have 
one or two entities with the categories but doesn’t really provide / declare 
support.   I also think the why not is very important!

Cheers

Nicole


> 
> -peter