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[Olivier Salaün <olivier.salaun AT renater.fr>]

Le 02/12/2014 14:07, Tom Scavo a écrit :

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Olivier Salaün
<olivier.salaun AT renater.fr> wrote:

I hope I provide the details you expected.

Yes, indeed. InCommon is way behind RENATER and SWITCH with respect to
interfederation. This is very helpful. Thank you very much.

Did you consider providing a single metadata aggregate to your
members? If so, can say why you chose to provide multiple aggregates
instead?

It seems that separating the metadata aggregates with a clear definition of what they include helps IdP/SP admin have a finer control of what they load. Also, given the current groth of metadata files nowadays and technical issues it creates (latest releases of simpleSAMLphp and SWITCH WAYF to use a different XML parser, tuning of the JVM for a Shibboleth IdP) it seems reasonable that a SAML implementation only loads the SAML metadata it has need for:

• SPs need IdPs metadata,
• IdPs need SPs metadata,
• DS need both.
  

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