Grouper Developers Forum

[Chris Hyzer <>]

> I think we've defined "external" as "outside of an institution's idm
> system", and "federated" as "external and resolvable".

I was thinking of external as outside an institutions idm, and federated, as 
external and participating in a federation.

Whether or not the subject is in a federation, I don't know how they will be 
resolved remotely, both types needs to have attributes cached locally.

Though I do agree that eventually it might be possible to have a federation 
wide subject repository, I didn't picture building that anytime soon.

So essentially, external and federated are treated similarly for now I would 
think.

Thanks,
Chris