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[Pål Axelsson <pax AT sunet.se>]

> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: edugain-discuss-request AT lists.geant.org <edugain-discuss-
> request AT lists.geant.org> För Nicole Harris
> Skickat: den 9 maj 2019 14:08
> Till: Peter Schober <peter.schober AT univie.ac.at>
> Kopia: edugain-discuss AT lists.geant.org
> Ämne: Re: [eduGAIN-discuss] How do I find out if a federation supports
> specific entity categories?
>
>
>
> > 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!

Hi all,

This is even more interesting with the REFEDS Assurance Framework (RAF),
REFEDS Multi-factor Authentication Profile (MFA) and REFEDS Single-factor
Authentication Profile (SFA) due to they do not have any indication of
support in metadata.

When RAF was written the consensus within the working group was that a
metadata tag would hinder the adoption even though the possibility to track
the uptake will be hard. In SFA there was no discussion at all about this.

Pål

>
> Cheers
>
> Nicole
>
>
> >
> > -peter