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Notes
If there is a value in eduPersonPrimaryAffiliation, that value MUST be asserted here as well.
If the terms faculty and staff are in common use at an institution, there is no need for the employee affiliation.
The list of allowed values in the current version of the object class is CERTAINLY incomplete. We felt that any additional values should come out of discussions with the stakeholder communities. Any agreed-upon additional values will be included as part of the later versions of eduPerson.
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It is not feasible to attempt to reach broad-scale, precise and binding inter-institutional definitions of affiliations such as faculty and students. Organizations have a variety of business practices and institutional specific uses of common terms. Therefore each institution will decide the criteria for membership in each affiliation classification. What is desirable is that a reasonable person should find an institution's use of the affiliation plausible..