Interfederation

["Cantor, Scott" <>]

On 4/30/13 5:08 PM, "Tom Scavo" 
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 wrote:
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>Perhaps, but I don't see much point exporting 1100 SPs, the vast
>majority of which are non-federating. The best estimate we have of
>federating SPs is R&S, that is, 12 SPs. If there are more, they should
>be applying for R&S (which has a fairly low bar).

While I agree that in principle opt-in for SPs is probably workable, I do
object to "people are using InCommon for non-federated SPs" as a
justification not to publish them. If you don't want to be published,
don't register your metadata. Or fine, add an opt-out feature if you like.

But I don't think I should have be R&S in order to interfederate as an SP.

>Turning this around, consuming SP metadata is problematic because
>imported SPs will not be bound by our Participation Agreement, and
>therefore will lack any sort of privacy consideration (although I
>admit what's currently in the PA is fairly benign).

It's only problematic if we don't have a way identify the SPs that have
agreed to it.

-- Scott