NBC Olympics' Discovery Service

[Cantor, Scott]

On 7/28/12 2:30 PM, "Nate Klingenstein" <ndk at internet2.edu> wrote:

>There's a full-browser redirect to mine(Comcast) where it immediately
>recognizes that I'm subscribed for Internet access only.  Sad times.

I decided not to mention that of course the whole use case here is so
hateful to people that it actually gets blamed on SAML and taints the
technology when you see people notice it on Twitter.

>Hopefully, there's not too much variation between IdP's that the
>Olympics site has to accommodate.

That would be really interesting to find out. How they determine what to
do there.

>One more amusing tidbit: apparently NBC Olympics requests a
>persistentId that expires at the IdP 15 days after creation.  A
>telecom asked me whether that's what the deactivationDate field in the
>Stored ID Data Connector SQL example was for:
>
>https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/StoredIDDataConnector
>DDL

I have no idea, is it? ;-)

-- Scott