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[Rhys Smith <>]

On 9 Sep 2010, at 19:41, Chad La Joie wrote:

> No, if you read a couple of the other IdPv3 emails you'll see that all the 
> visible pages will be pulled out of the WAR.  This means the pages can't be 
> JSPs, but one cryptic pseudo-markup language is probably not much different 
> than another for most deployers.

Aha, I missed that thread yes. +1 from me definitely. Makes the login page 
much less of a problem both when it comes to upgrading, and for hosting 
multiple IdPs with different pages.


>> Great. Anyone planning on hosting multiple IdPs for multiple
>> organisations absolutely would require to be able to connect each
>> instance to a different authentication/attr source. But I'm sure you
>> know that :-).
> 
> Not necessarily.  I've heard some plans for people who want to host 
> (virtualized) IdPs for primary schools.  In those cases, they claim, that 
> the authn and attribute system is one thing for all schools they're talking 
> to.  I guess it's maintained at the regional level or something.  But yeah, 
> the idea is that each IdP would share as much, or as little, of their 
> configuration as necessary.

My language wasn't particularly clear there - I meant it had to be an option 
for people hosting multiple IdPs for different orgs, not that it would be 
always be required. I can think of a few use cases where different IdP 
instances might share the same auth/attr sources, the schools sector is 
definitely one of those.

Thanks for all of this Chad, it should be very useful!
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