An open discussion list for topics related to the eduGAIN interfederation service.

[Leif Johansson <leifj AT sunet.se>]

On 2020-03-13 17:34, Nicholas Roy wrote:
> 
> 
> On 13 Mar 2020, at 10:14, Leif Johansson wrote:
> 
>> On 2020-03-13 14:58, Nicholas Roy wrote:
>>> This is likely to be something InCommon does in the future, as well, 
>>> since we already use a very nice CDN for our MDQ service. Just makes 
>>> sense to fetch everyone’s logos periodically, cache them in S3 and make 
>>> the logo URLs point at our CDN fronting S3.
>>>
>>
>> seamlessaccess.org runs software that does this - we're still playing 
>> around a bit with
>> what the best cut-off size is (there are logos that are simply too large 
>> to fetch in
>> practice).
> 
> Yet another reason for an eduGAIN / REFEDS-level logo standard.
> 
> PNGs of 400x400px max 40KB
> SVGs preferred, again max 40KB

Sounds entirely reasonable.

> 
>>
>>      Cheers Leif
>>
>>> Nick
>>>
>>> On 13 Mar 2020, at 3:28, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
>>>
>>>> Op 13-03-2020 om 10:23 schreef Guy Halse:
>>>>> I have considered an alternative, which I may implement in future --
>>>>> rather than converting them to data: URLS, we could cache them and make
>>>>> them available via https:// from our own CDN (thus replacing the 
>>>>> original
>>>>> URL with a new https:// one).
>>>>
>>>> This is what we do, FWIW. All our logos come from a single domain, which
>>>> makes it also much faster to fetch many of them in one go for browsers.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thijs

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