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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