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Nicole Harris wrote: > If you have any ideas > about ‘gaps’ in information, I’d be very interested to hear them. Some > of the areas where we know information is still needed are: Nicole, I've been meaning to send a comment to UKERNA (so apologies to anyone from UKERNA who may be watching this list), but your initiative seems a good place to submit such a comment. We're not a JISC-funded 'early adopter' here in Oxford, but we /are/ just beginning to adopt right now. Also - I've been a little out of touch over the last 5 or 6 months, so apologies if anyone else has addressed this or if policy has been changed and been announced. Anyway: when I was 'advising' here, I talked up the ease of Shib implementation, especially as we are only expecting to serve up 4 attributes in the short- to medium-term. This seems sensible as both IdPs and SPs need to know what to expect. However, a search of the http://www.ukfederation.org.uk doesn't turn up any text advising of the 4 attributes (and I therefore wondered if the policy had changed). I found the list of Attribute Usage (SPs) quite easily: http://www.ukfederation.org.uk/content/Documents/AttributeUsage Eventually a colleague pointed me at: Transition arrangements -> FedDocs and I found the 4 attributes listed at links saying recommendations-for-use-of-personal-data and technical-recommendations-for-participants Anyway, my point is that this information is somewhere between 'basic' and 'technical' and is the kind of thing needed in order to persuade the 'powers that be' in our organisations to implement Shibboleth and expose certain data to the outside world. It should be easier to find. I'd recommend that it should be found easily from the 'Operational Information' link, or maybe the 'Join' major link should go to somewhere that has a page saying "What do I have to do to make Shibboleth work at my institution?" At the moment, it's too much like the other meaning of the word "Shibboleth". People like us can find the information because we know quite a bit and we know it's there. For those who don't know so much, there should be a couple of easy entry pages on the http://www.ukfederation.org.uk site, before sending people away to browse through MATU or somewhere. I notice that you mention a 'Business Case Toolkit'. That might help or be the very place! A few weak promises: We should be able to submit something about Oxford's experience regarding hardware purchases soon (it won't be too interesting, though!). Once we get the arguments thrashed out, we may also be able to help with the multiple management domains as well, although we are going to campaign hard for only one IdP at Oxford (as our SSO reaches across the collegiate University). Regards, Mark -- Mark Norman Integration and Development Manager Oxford University Computing Services Tel. +44 (0)1865 273287