Shibboleth Developers

[Thomas Lenggenhager <>]

Answers to some of these questions could help to better understand
the scope of the planned ARP Mgmt tool and how it will fit into the
existing Shib configuration and federation setup.

The title on the page
        http://www.stanford.edu/%7Ejvine/shibboleth
is 'Shibboleth Library Admin Tool' and the example is very much
oriented towards libraries. That's OK, since this is an important field
for Shib deployment, however, I wonder if the tool to be developed will
be generic enough so that it is suitable as well for e-learning targets
or for inner-university ARP management, where the term 'contract' is not
really appropriate.

From where will the ARP Mgmt tool get the config required?

The target has currently to define e.g its Apache access rules, its AAP,
the providerID etc. It has to pass part of that config info to the
federation for inclusion into sites.xml.
Missing is a central collection of attributes required for each target
that it can make the authorization decision. That info is required to
be anble to generate appropriate ARPs for each target.

Do you plan to define an XML schema for that transfer of config from
target to federation?

Would you expect the federation also to manage the base config for the
future ARP Mgmt tool?

Thomas
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