Per-Entity Metadata Working Group

[Nick Roy <>]

Strong +1.  I'm concerned about InCommon's reputation as a federation 
operator if things were to go badly.

Nick

On 7/27/16, 12:26 PM, 
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    > On Jul 27, 2016, at 1:06 PM, Cantor, Scott 
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    > On 7/27/16, 1:56 PM, 
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    >>   Sure, and DNS has the same characteristics.
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    > DNS can tolerate long outages? That is really not my experience, but 
I'm no DNS expert. Can you clarify?
    
    Your points about DNS are well-taken, but where the comparison breaks 
down is that we aren’t talking about asking thousands of institutions to 
point their systems at InCommon’s DNS servers. I think the major risk here is 
reputational. With the centralized model we seem to be headed toward, hiccups 
could be catastrophic, certainly in terms of MDQ adoption, but also perhaps 
in terms of the perceived value proposition of the federation.
    
    I’m not attempting to argue against MDQ or “our” ability to deploy 
reliable infrastructure, but I think we need to have our eyes open to the 
risks of the various models that we propose. 
    
    -WFH