Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Chris Hyzer <>]

Here is a naming wiki.

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Group+and+folder+design+ideas

For the federated question, there is no official rule yet, but when we 
discussed when designing fifer, we thought #2 was the only way to do that... 
(backwards compatible with existing deployments)

That said, at Penn, our root stem is "penn", which every folder has as a 
parent or ancestor...

Thanks,
Chris

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Subject: [grouper-users] group namespace practices

What guidelines are sites coming up with to set the left-hand portion of 
their Grouper stem/folder hierarchy?

How are sites (if any are) preparing for a world of federated use of group 
memberships? The options seem to include (among others):


1) Adopting a naming standard that guarantees global uniqueness of every 
group (and folder) name 
2) Using a flatter namespace for local groups and then, when the context 
calls for it, globalizing them by adding a prefix (e.g. 
urn:mace:foo.edu:groups:... or http://foo.edu/groups/....). 


One could argue that any SAML use case might call for globalized group names 
just in case they end up being used in non-local contexts


 Inquiring minds..... --Keith