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[Tom Barton <>]

This sounds like a good topic to work on in collaboration with VO
partners. I know that ScottK has established a naming scheme suited to
LIGO, and Rachana Ananthakrishnan has some ideas about how they'll
support BIRN's needs. I think these differ in ways that reflect the
different MOs of these two VOs.

Tom

On 2/10/2011 9:03 AM, heather flanagan wrote:
> Hi Chris -
> 
> It is generally up to the institution, but when we're talking about a
> VO, do you think anything might change?  Would the advice be at all
> different?  I suspect they'd certainly like a Grouper cookbook, since
> it's generally not central IT people putting this together.
> 
> -heather f.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Chris Hyzer 
> <
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>  wrote:
> 
>     There have been postings to the users list periodically about how
>     people have set it up... generally it is up to the institution.
>      Some things to keep in mind:
> 
>     Folders are used for:
> 
>     1. Privileges.  You can delegate access to create groups and folders
>     down the folder hierarchy
>     2. Filtering groups.  i.e. for an application, if all the groups
>     used in that application are in a folder, then you can easily get a
>     group list or membership list for the entire application in one WS call
>     3. Hierarchies in memberships.  You can have a loader job which
>     rolls up memberships in child orgs into a parent org which could be
>     in a parent folder
>     4. Soon to be to restrict which subjects are allowed to be used in
>     groups/permission (i.e. in folder "apps", only employees can be
>     assigned to groups)
> 
>     Here are some threads:
> 
>     
> https://lists.internet2.edu/sympa/arc/grouper-users/2010-04/msg00018.html
> 
>     
> https://lists.internet2.edu/sympa/arc/grouper-users/2010-04/msg00035.html
> 
>     
> https://lists.internet2.edu/sympa/arc/grouper-users/2010-05/msg00013.html
> 
>     
> https://lists.internet2.edu/sympa/arc/grouper-users/2011-01/msg00004.html
> 
>     Thanks,
>     Chris
> 
> 
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>     Subject: [comanage-dev] documentation on planning for a new group
>     namespace?
> 
>     Hi all -
> 
>     I'm hunting through the Grouper site to see if there is any
>     documentation on what an entirely new org might want to consider when
>     it comes to establishing the namespace and potential hierarchies for
>     their group environment.  I'm not seeing anything right off the bat,
>     and wonder if anyone here knows of a document of that nature?
> 
>     Thanks!
> 
>     -hf
> 
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