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- We need to improve metadata: specifically MDUI, ensuring contact metadata doesn’t bounce and presence of error handling urls. There was a suggestion that and an IdP that can’t meet these criteria should be hidden from discovery. This was purposefully controversial. From session: Research needs for InCommon Metadata.
- European view on the InCommon Error Handling Service: https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/InCFederation/Error+Handling+Service. From session: Research needs for InCommon Metadata.
- Renewed calls for a central Service Catalogue and a REFEDS working group to support this in Shared Service Catalogue session.
- Lack of engagement with SPs and inability to follow up on the value proposition for SPs discussed in session Increasing SP Participation. Activities to move forward would fall in an international role: Service by affiliation category. Value proposition document. Adoption programme. Shared SP Business Manager? Testing Suites needed. Centre of Excellence with federation skills.
- VO in Reverse: Federation for Campuses without IT Infrastructure - looks at bundling IdPs for organisations without IT infrastructure. Interesting for IoLR, AARC and work in areas such as Africa.
- The issue of non-uniform publication of metadata raised in SP Registration Guidelines session. Interesting to see MET cited as a way to see where your metadata flows.
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