perfsonar development work

["Nina Jeliazkova" <>]

Nicolas Simar 
<>
 wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> could you please provide a use case describing in which case we would 
> use it?
> 
> Thanks a lot :)

For example, Internet2 users might like to use "Internet2" authentication
federation, that is different than "GN2-perfsonar" one.

I think Jeff have a better idea how the use case would look like.

Regards,
Nina

> 
> Cheers,
> Nicolas
> 
> Nina Jeliazkova wrote:
> > Jeff,
> > 
> > I guess nobody had suggested this so far - otherwise I think it is very 
> > good option.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Nina
> > 
> > Jeff W. Boote wrote:
> >> Hi Nina, Candido,
> >>
> >> Is there any reason we could not publish the metadata service URL in 
> >> the LS, and then fetch it from there? Hopefully there will be more 
> >> than one authentication federation in use soon and I suspect it will 
> >> be easier for users if they can be presented with choices instead of 
> >> making them specify things like this.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> jeff
> >>
> >> On May 31, 2008, at 6:19 AM, 
> >> 
> >>  wrote:
> >>
> >>> Author: nina
> >>> Date: 2008-05-31 08:19:14 -0400 (Sat, 31 May 2008)
> >>> New Revision: 3932
> >>>
> >>> Modified:
> >>>   
> >>>
>
branches/perfsonarui/src/org/perfsonar/perfsonarui/aa/AAPerfsonarRequest.java 
> >>>
> >>>   branches/perfsonarui/src/org/perfsonar/perfsonarui/test/ls/LSTest.java
> >>>   
> >>>
branches/perfsonarui/src/org/perfsonar/perfsonarui/ui/PerfsonarModel.java 
> >>>
> >>> Log:
> >>> Introduced a new command line option
> >>>
> >>> -m,--mds <URL>                        URL of Metadata Service, used to
> >>>                                       retrieve the list of Identity 
> >>> Providers, default http://mds.rediris.es:8080
> >>> in relation to Bug 461
> >>> https://bugzilla.perfsonar.net/show_bug.cgi?id=461
> >>>
> >