The hard work of the federation staff in pushing through these new IdPs is much appreciated.
If any other service providers are interested, we have a script which produces a list using the federation metadata showing which UK HE/FE/RC organisations have IdPs (real or virtual) and which do not. Contact me off list for details.
Sean
Mimas
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Ian Young wrote
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> Sean Dunne wrote:
>
> > Only 3 organisations using the Athens-to-Shib gateway are
> > shown with IdPs as separate entities in the metadata (required if
> > they offer user accountability).
>
> Four, as of today. A fair number of others are at earlier
> stages in the
> pipeline. For example, if you see an institution having its
> scope added
> to the conventional gateway IdP's list, there's a good chance
> in current
> circumstances that they are in the process for a separate virtual IdP
> run by Eduserv.
>
> > It would be helpful to know whether there is a backlog at the
> > federation of requests for IdPs (whether managed by the owners or
> > outsourced) waiting to be processed for adding to the metadata, or
> > whether the bottleneck is with the institutions themselves.
>
> There are currently a fair number of institutions who have asked for
> separate IdPs through the Athens administrative interface but who
> haven't made it into the metadata yet. That's for a variety
> of reasons,
> and I don't propose to get into details here of individual
> applications.
>
> Obviously, we're trying to move people through the pipeline as fast as
> we can. It's proving to be somewhat trickier than we hoped, and the
> external view isn't improved by the size of the wave of applications
> that hit us all at once when the feature went live.
>
> -- Ian
>
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