Guidance for app owners: got any? (i.e. "things to think about" before you develop/deploy)

[Erdos, Marlena]

Scott,


>My first attempt was to start a WG within MACE regarding federated
application development, and I didn't have the time. My second attempt was
to draft a number of wiki topics on federated application issues which are
in the InCommon documentation and were left in varying states, some
polished up by InCommon.
>



Could you provide urls (or search terms) so I could find the InCommon
articles you drafted?  I'd love to see them (and anything else you've
written addressing "advice to app" owners (whether polished or not).)


>Another problem though is lack of consensus on many issues. When you don't
have broad agreement (or don't know you have it), it's difficult to tell
people what to do.
>


 I'm just not worried about the lack of consensus.  Right now, we have
very little advice that we give to application owners.   If I write it, it
will just be my point of view (modulo reviewers) i.e. a consensus of one
:-).    If instead I have material at hand that espousing a variety of
views, then I can at least say to users "here are the points of view" and
"here's how I think you might want to think about your situation"
(assuming I have details on their situation).

Additionally, even more than "telling people what to do" what I'm
interested in is providing the app owners a set of *questions* to think
about along with some example scenarios.

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If anybody else has some pointers to guidance, I'd much appreciate hearing
about.   (And I look forward to whatever Scott is willing is pass along.)


Thx!
Marlena