EDS enhancement entity category

[Tom Scavo]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Scott Koranda <skoranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ...that is certainly *not* how a mature ID selector would work. Instead
>> I think you'd find that the DS would list all IdPs, but highlight
>> those it _believed_ to have a greater chance of working and possibly
>> telling the user why another IdP might not work for this particular SP.

Can you describe what you mean by "highlight?"

> Could it fit into the roadmap for the Shibboleth SP and the
> EDS to have the SP pass through more information into the JSON
> feed, such as the metadata entity categories with which an IdP
> is tagged, and then the EDS have the ability to mark in the UI
> those IdPs that meet a particular condition, ie. being tagged
> with a particular entity category?

Can you be more specific about you mean by "mark in the UI?"

> The use case I am most interested in would be to have the EDS
> visually distinguish between IdPs that are tagged with the
> REFEDS R&S entity category and those that are not.

I'm not sure how one would "visually distinguish" IdPs on the
discovery interface such that the interface is 1) accessible, and 2)
understandable.

The problem you have loosely described seems to be at least as
difficult as user consent.

> If you think this could fit into the Shibboleth SP and EDS
> road map please let me know and I will file a JIRA ticket(s).

Per-entity metadata is going to turn discovery on its head, so I'm not
sure it makes sense to continue further down the same path we're on
now.

Tom