[Tf-aai] AAI VC Notes

Martin Matthiesen martin.matthiesen at csc.fi
Tue Mar 22 15:25:21 CET 2016


Hi Sander and all,

So we had our our AAI VC today and even reached some conclusions. See:

https://trac.clarin.eu/wiki/Taskforces/AAI/Meetings/2016-03-22

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sander Maijers" <sander at clarin.eu>
> To: "Martin" <martin.matthiesen at csc.fi>
> Cc: "Oliver Schonefeld" <schonefeld at ids-mannheim.de>, "tf-aai" <tf-aai at lists.clarin.eu>
> Sent: Tuesday, 22 March, 2016 15:43:22
> Subject: Re: AAI VC Notes

> Hi Martin,
> 
> Yes, I think everything is covered. You reorganized the Trac text very well
> IMO.

Thanks. I did keep the mailing list out to first check with the participants, but now we have to assume that Oliver is also ok with the memo :-)
 
> One comment about resistance from identity federations to automatic
> ‘harvesting’ of SAML metadata from SPs: I do not think that will be an
> issue. They would not know that what we changed our SAML metadata
> processing internally, and even if they do then the manual checks (and
> version control) of before would definitely still be in place.

In practice I fully agree, SP admins could already now try to put malicious data to the SVN. I just assume that some federation admins would get cold sweat after being made aware about a process involving SP-provided metadata.

Cheers,
Martin

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> Sander
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> 
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Martin Matthiesen <martin.matthiesen at csc.fi
>> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Oliver and Sander!
>>
>> Thanks for the VC today, good I was not alone ;-)
>>
>> Did I cover the main points?
>>
>> https://trac.clarin.eu/wiki/Taskforces/AAI/Meetings/2016-03-22
>>
>> I also cleaned up the meeting part of the main page:
>>
>> https://trac.clarin.eu/wiki/Taskforces/AAI/
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>>
>>
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