School me on hub and spoke federations

[Niels van Dijk]

On 05/13/2013 08:12 PM, Mike Flynn wrote:
> Was recently asked to look at Kennisnet.nl as federation for another
> client.  Looking at their fed they call it a "hub and spoke" federation.
>  Their metadata only consists of a single SP/Idp pair that Kennisnet
> maintains.  Does not look to work like the more traditional federations
> (a'la InCommon etc).
> 
> Google has been pretty worthless trying to get information on how this
> type of federation works.  Can anyone enlighten me?

Hi Mike,

Might I suggest to simply ask the federation operator in question:
entree at kennisnet.nl

Some addition info on hub and spoke federation as they exist is here:
http://www.wayf.dk/ (Denmark)
https://wiki.surfnetlabs.nl/display/surfconextdev/Get+Conexted! (The
Netherlands)
http://www.rediris.es/sir/ (Spain)
http://confia.aupa.info/inicio/?set_language=en (Andalusian
universities, Spain)
https://www.feide.no/introducing-feide (Norway)
http://taat.edu.ee/main/ (Estinia)
http://www.amres.ac.rs/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=255&Itemid=275
(Serbia)

Cheers,
Niels