Grouper Developers Forum

["RL 'Bob' Morgan" <>]

I'm not sure what the useful intersection would be.  Grouper has a UI and 
database, but doesn't at this point have a protocol interface; group info 
managed in Grouper would be exported to a directory or other system for 
consumption by apps.  The People Service, among other things, defines WSDL 
for group management, so perhaps supporting that interface in Grouper 
would be useful.  I suspect a real People Service implementation would 
require a lot functionality than Grouper provides (ie, more than just 
groups stuff), so I don't know if supporting this interface would actually 
accomplish much.  People Service of course is a brand new thing, and is 
targeted at supporting the brave new world of social software.  Grouper I 
would say is much more traditional and modest in scope.  But this may be 
something to look at in the future.

 - RL "Bob"

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Erik Vullings wrote:

> Quick question: I was wondering whether Grouper is going to interoperate
> with the new People Service specification, which is part of Liberty
> Alliance's ID-WSF:
> http://www.projectliberty.org/press/details.php?item_id=157
>
> Cheers,
> Erik