[mdx] what do do about duplicates

[Leif Johansson]

On Monday 11 May 2009 11:24:37 pm Josh Howlett wrote:
> > What is the aggregator to do if it receives different
> > metadata for the same entityID from 2 different sources?
>
> Policy decision time?
>
> For eduGAIN, I was vaguely thinking that the entity with the 'strongest'
> associated registration assurance wins (e.g. proof of possession-of-key
> associated with an EVCert > proof of ownership of domain >
> self-assertion).

But if you get "essentially" the same entity from different sources - again
what is essentially equivalent entities? Do we allow EntityAttributes to 
vary, signatures? Do we merge or discard?

	Cheers Leif