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Scott: We've reached the stage where we need bring in a UX now expert on this topic.
Bob: There's been a cultural gap between the disc discovery UIs that the few commercial providers (e.g. Janrain, etc) and things that have been done in spaces that have dozens or hundreds of more of IdPs that have stuck (in the past) with text. We're looking to bring these worlds together somehow.
Scott: I added the keywords element to the SAML Metadata Extention for User Interface spec.
Paul: AI: I'll talk to Valeska about this "role of the icons (and hover text) in the UX". (In both the proposed "see all" and the "filtered view"). What kinds of icons are going to be required based on different roles. The descriptive text is in this same bucket. How do you discriminate between two IdPs have the same name (e.g. two universities with the same name (which has already shown up as a use case in the Shib world).
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