centralized DS - contributions?

[Cantor, Scott]

On 5/19/15, 11:20 PM, "Vladimir Mencl" <vladimir.mencl at canterbury.ac.nz> 
wrote:


>
>I think there is still a need for a CDS - something federations would 
>provide as the backup solutions for SPs that would not be deploying the 
>EDS.

As Tom said, that isn't really the question, it's what that technology 
looks like, and people have demonstrated that the EDS works for that use 
case. And a lot of the extra features some people want are already in the 
EDS + SP together, such as advanced metadata capabilities.

>Comparing to the SWITCH WAYF, the CDS supports multiple federations -
>and that was a key feature for us at the time we were launching.  (With 
>a number of SPs and IdPs in our audience registered into multiple 
>federations).

I'm not sure I understand what that refers to specifically (a limit on the 
number of metadata sources?), but the EDS certainly handles many sources.

-- Scott