[scim] Charter discussion item: What are the use cases for having a SCIM cursors

Phil Hunt <phil.hunt@independentid.com> Wed, 07 July 2021 16:17 UTC

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Subject: [scim] Charter discussion item: What are the use cases for having a SCIM cursors
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As promised on the call today, this is to follow up and ask for use cases for people who want to use cursors. I think this would be helpful to understand in order to drive to a common purpose and solution.

For example, today I think I heard:
*  Some clients want to confirm resources have been deleted.   Why does this come about? SCIM already returns a definitive success/fail upong HTTP DELETE. Is it a case of co-ordination between multiple clients? 

* Is it used to re-concile (e.g. meta-directory style)  between disparately managed systems periodically? 

* Others reasons?

Can the use of cursors be confined to “specialized” clients where cursor might be consider a special “priviledge”.  IOW….would you allow javascript UI components to use cursors against your SCIM server?

Phil Hunt
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