Yes, this should be highly relevant to the strand of the JISC Institutional Consent Management Study which is looking in detail at ARP user interfaces. 
 
It was certainly the experience of the JISC FLAME Project (final reports due out end-March) that neither ShARPe/Autograph (from MAMS), nor ArpViewer (from SWITCH, now restyled as uApprove to work with Shib v2) actuially provided user interfaces that genuinely enabled end-users to give *informed* consent. 
 
In cynical summary, our findings from interviews with users basically boil down to: "I just clicked 'Next', to get to the thing I wanted".
 
It's not entirely clear to me, from Ingrid's post, whether the Consent Module she describes will work with a standard Shib-IdP release from Internet2;  I have a feeling that Feide's SimpleSAMLphp is different.  Also that there may be greater coordination over attribute value naming amongst Feide members than in the UK Fed. 
 
One significant problem we (in FLAME) encountered was that, even with an enterprise directory (designed with FAM as a principal purpose) backing the IdP and ARP component, there is no obvious place to store human-readable names/descriptions of attributes and values, to ask the user a meaningful question.
 
John
 

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This may be of interest. 

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Subject: [refeds] Consent and federated login
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 20:41:01 -0000
From: Ingrid Melve <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi,

I typed up a short piece on consent as it is currently implemented in
Feide, with a few screenshots.

http://identitynetworks.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/ready-able-and-willing-federated-consent/

The combination of SSO and consent is what confuses most users so far.
We expect to have more feedback from end users when we start moving
student services over to our new platform in a few weeks.


Ingrid
  (grateful to WAYF for the software)


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