How many InCommon sites will my institution show up in?

[Eric Goodman]

+1

In addition, typically I've seen this come up for widely federated sites that we probably want to support anyway. E.g., the requests/tickets I've seen have been for SPs like Microsoft Dreamspark, EduCause, Internet2 and shibboleth.net. 

--- Eric


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From: users-bounces at shibboleth.net [mailto:users-bounces at shibboleth.net] On Behalf Of Martin B. Smith
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 12:05 PM
To: users at shibboleth.net
Subject: Re: How many InCommon sites will my institution show up in?

On 07/02/2013 07:54 PM, Erdos, Marlena wrote:
> As Harvard moves toward putting up an IdP -- and getting ourselves put 
> into the InCommon metadata -- one question that has arisen is "how 
> many SPs will list  'Harvard University' as a Discovery/WAYF option 
> automatically?"

Hi Marlena,

In the last 3-4 years, we've had less than 10 SPs actually list the University of Florida IdP in a way that caused support requests or user consternation (i.e. listing us without telling us). Typically, we see SP and IdP operators use the InCommon metadata's contact information for each entity, so they were all resolved in fairly short order.

Hope this helps,

Martin

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