Interfederation

[Scott Koranda <>]

> 
> On 22 Feb 2013, at 12:00, Scott Koranda 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
> > Once that is done I do not plan to whitelist at the SP...the
> > authorization controls on the SP are good enough.
> 
> Good, I was hoping that was the case.  Relying on entities not being able 
> to see the entities that aren't interested in has never seemed like a 
> scalable long term approach to me.
> 
> > Ultimately I think what I would want from InCommon is an
> > ala-carte menu of different aggregate feeds, and for this SP I
> > would want to choose "InCommon + UK + eduGAIN + GakuNin +
> > ...". 
> > 
> > Or perhaps it would be better to have two feeds and I
> > configure the SP to download them both:
> > 
> > - InCommon
> > - InCommon "vetted international partners"
> > 
> > where "vetted international partners" buries a couple years of policy
> > discussions I suppose.
> 
> Burying the results of policy discussions where users of a system don't 
> have to worry about them is in my mind an important part of successful 
> infrastructure.
> 
> Do you have any opinion on the UK approach, where we're just
> planning to put everything in one big pot?  Would that be
> bad for you, or acceptable given the SP controls?
> 

I want to spend more time thinking about it in detail, but
right now I think that would be just fine.

Cheers,

Scott