InCommon Operations Notifications

[Tom Scavo <>]

On Thursday, February 10, an InCommon Federation participant inadvertently 
introduced a literal space into a location endpoint URL of an 
<md:AssertionConsumerService> element in metadata. This space is causing some 
consumers of InCommon Federation metadata to fail. We have had two such 
reports of metadata breakage so far.

This problem will be fixed today (Friday, February 11) by 3:00pm EST. That 
is, an updated metadata file will be published with the literal space 
character removed. Once an updated, and correct, metadata file is published, 
we will investigate the scope of this issue and reply to this mailing list 
with an update.

If your site was affected by this issue, it would be very helpful if you 
would send e-mail to 

 and describe your symptoms in detail. Please include the name and version 
number of the software component that experienced the problem.

InCommon Operations