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Subject: Re: [provision] ask the cloud : why not SPML ?
> Do you have enough information to describe the business problem(s) we are > trying to solve? Then yes, please do. I'd really like to know what's > different about provisioning to the cloud and how we could change SPML to > better support that. The business problem is : the (complete) lack of SPML support. I agree that, in many ways, "federated" or "cloud" provisioning is just like Larry Ellison said, "vapor". I think Phil Hunt did a great job in explaining federated provisioning as provision at-a-distance, but that doesn't seem to require any changes to SPML. However, it would be great to know why Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc. do not support SPML. Is it a technical issue ? If so, those folks certainly have the resources to rectify a technical insufficiency. If it is a "business" issue, then I am not sure that we can do anything about it, other than get lots of folks in higher-ed to use SPML and encourage change. We can try, we have some folks (like myself) writing SPML tools and sharing them. TomZ
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