<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 30 Oct 2018, at 03:09, Tom Jones via Openid-specs-ab <<a href="mailto:openid-specs-ab@lists.openid.net" class="">openid-specs-ab@lists.openid.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">i saw the notes for a meeting today, but it was not on any calendar i have access to.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My question is about draft 5 which drops the trust model and the federation office.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>We haven’t dropped the trust model. It’s still there though in other words.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">But still has the named entities that were in draft 4.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I must admit confusion. How do i indicate the operative federation in a entity statement? It seems like the statement is not complete!</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>An entity statement by itself will probably not contain any information about the operative federation.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Remember that entity statements are organised in a hierarchy. The ones at the bottom are the self-signed entity statements published by the</div><div>leaf entities that participate in the federation. In a OIDC federation this would be RPs and OPs.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>At the top we have the entity statements published by the operative federation. In between RPs/OPS and the federation operator we may have one </div><div>or more levels of intermediate entities. These intermediates typically represents organisations, companies and the likes.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Each entity statement contains links (authority_hints) to one or more superiors and by following these links you will eventually reach the </div><div>entity statement that a federation operator has issued. Note that a leaf/intermediate entity may belong to more than one federation.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">and what type of entity exactly is <span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;" class="">SWAMID in the new draft?</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>SWAMID is the Swedish Higher Education and Research Identity Federation.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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