Interfederation

["Cantor, Scott" <>]

On 5/28/13 12:17 PM, "John Krienke" 
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 wrote:

>I'll be late due to conflicts but able to make the second 30 minutes of
>today's
>call. In general, my comments are less about what is there and more about
>what 
>is not. I'll bring up a comment on section 4 of the Policy Declaration
>("validation of entities"), and also make mention of the MD Interop
>Profile, 
>line 243: "Acceptance in this profile is defined as an explicit treatment
>of 
>everything in the metadata as "true", for the purposes of the metadata
>consumer's operational behavior."
>
>Truth and possession is an assumption that participating organizations
>rely on.

As the author of that statement, and not being particularly proud of the
wording, the point of that IOP language has to do with software design and
behavior, not the "meaning" of metadata in a policy sense.

IOP is very much a standard written by somebody very frustrated with the
disconnect between what standards address and what software has to
actually decide how to do.

-- Scott