Interfederation

[Steven Carmody <>]

On 5/29/13 3:22 PM, Tom Scavo wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Cantor, 
> Scott<>
>   wrote:
> > On 5/29/13 2:09 PM, "Scott 
> > Koranda"<>
> >   wrote:
> >
> > LIGO wants to interfederate, and is saying that the lack of a formalized
> > trust framework for the quality of the metadata isn't a barrier.
> >
> > InCommon could do that without edugain, so the question becomes what does
> > edugain buy it over the alternatives.
>
> Simplicity. I can't think of a reason why we would want to reinvent the wheel.

IC could easily create and publish a file that contains all/many of the 
entities found in the edugain export file. And IC could do that without 
joining edugain.

IMHO the big gain in joining edugain is that this step is probably (as 
Tom says) the simplest, easiest way to make IC entities available (and 
recognized and trusted by) entities in other Federations. IC could make 
N bilateral agreements, but joining edugain is much simpler.