InCommon Operations Notifications

[John Krienke <>]

All,

InCommon federation operations is changing the tool we sign the metadata with. 
To follow our metadata change management policy of notification and testing[1], 
we're announcing a week of tests with the new tool, starting today. We'll switch 
over and sign the production metadata with the new tool on Wednesday, September 
15th. Please test locally with the test metadata file available here:
http://wayf.incommonfederation.org/InCommon/InCommon-metadata-test.xml

This will not require any modifications to SP or IdP implementations. The change 
is internal to our Federation signing operation, and since it affects the way we 
issue metadata, we're committed to making sure you know about the change and can 
test its results.

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Further Detail:
The current tool we use -- metadatatool[2]-- is operating just fine but is 
getting "long in the tooth" since it was bundled with Shib 1.3 and support for 
Shib 1.3 ended in June[3]. We're upgrading to use the XMLSecTool[4]. One 
difference between the two tools: Normalization of XML is handled differently.

Optionally, feel free to join the metadata-diff email list to receive the test 
metadata update notifications and DIFF comparisons[5].
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Send comments or questions to the team at 



john.

[1] 
https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/InCCollaborate/Metadata+Change+Management
[2] https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/SHIB/IdPRelyingConfig
[3] 
https://lists.internet2.edu/sympa/arc/shibboleth-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html
[4] https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/SHIB2/XmlSecTool
[5] http://www.incommonfederation.org/contacts.cfm also 
https://lists.incommon.org/sympa/arc/metadata-diff