Shibboleth Developers

[Chad La Joie <>]

Peter Schober wrote:
> * Chad La Joie 
> <>
>  [2008-06-09 19:45]:
> > I am especially reticent to consider this given that, to date, we've  
> > received no feedback as to whether people are even using it and, if so,  
> > what types of user experience issues their users are having.  The only  
> > projects I've known who have tried this remain undeployed and garnered  
> > user feedback that it was too complicated and confusing.
>
> Just to throw in that at the most recent EuroCAMP in stockholm
> http://www.terena.org/activities/eurocamp/may08/slides/20080508-simonsen-CONSENT.pdf
> several people (from several NRENs) talked about "consent"
> functionality as being the "next big thing" they expect to "need" in
> their federations (or inter-federations or confederations, eduGAIN,
> etc.). But this hardly has anything to do with user experience (and
> everything with lawers) I suppose.

I agree that users should be given the opportunity to consent.  That's 
why I support the current model of the ARPViwer.  I personally believe 
that these additional "features" that people are requesting aren't 
anything that users want.  Really, a lot like many many other things 
universities are constantly implementing.

> Not that I heared anything particularly convincing why we'd have to
> collect people's consent for e.g. ePTId or when releasing *fewer*
> attributes than before (whose release has already been consented to in
> the past), the latter of which being purely implementation specific,
> of course.
>
> regards,
> -peter

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