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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Hi Mike...<br>
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If you've got a chance, check out chapter 12 in Phil Windley's "Digital Identity" text, which provides a reasonable overview of 3 different federation patterns:<br>
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Ad-hoc federation<br>
Hub-and-spoke federation<br>
Identity federation network<br>
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<http://books.google.ca/books/about/Digital_Identity.html?id=o8mHSbDHgPsC><br>
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Corey<br>
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<div class="PlainText">Corey Scholefield | coreys@uvic.ca<br>
Identity Systems Administrator <br>
University of Victoria | Victoria, B.C. Canada</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF700721"><font size="2" color="#000000" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> users-bounces@shibboleth.net [users-bounces@shibboleth.net] on behalf of Mike Flynn [shibbolethlynda@yahoo.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 13, 2013 11:12 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> users@shibboleth.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> School me on hub and spoke federations<br>
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<div>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).</div>
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Google has been pretty worthless trying to get information on how this type of federation works. Can anyone enlighten me?</div>
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