Interfederation

[Leif Johansson <>]

On 05/28/2013 11:28 PM, Basney, Jim wrote:
> On 5/28/13 3:36 PM, "Tom Scavo" 
> <>
>  wrote:
>> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Basney, Jim 
>> <>
>>  wrote:
>>> * Effort to publish interfed metadata aggregate to InCommon members.
>> I think you mean the effort required to make eduGAIN available to
>> InCommon members, which is minimal, but I'm reminded of the old
>> saying:
>>
>> "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink."
>>
>> I'm pretty confident in saying eduGAIN metadata would NOT be bundled
>> in the current InCommon aggregate.
> I was thinking of our recommendation for a single InCommon
> "interfederation" metadata aggregate that would provide a stable source of
> entity metadata for consumption by InCommon members wishing to
> interfederate with external entities based on bilateral, hierarchical, and
> multilateral interfederation agreements.
>
> So it isn't really specific to eduGAIN -- it's a cost of supporting any
> type of interfederation.
>
>>> * No consistent level of assurance of identities.
>> You mean of individuals who submit metadata? This is part of
>> registration practice statement. Are you thinking of something else?
> I'm just pointing out that there's no eduGAIN Bronze/Silver, so SPs would
> have little confidence in the authentication assertions issued by IdPs.
>
> -Jim
>
yet.

I think its safe to say there will, at some point, be an assurance profile
for edugain in some form.