InCommon Operations Notifications

[Tom Scavo <>]

The Internet2 offices will close on December 24, 2013, and reopen on
January 2, 2014, so our staff can spend time with family and friends
during the holidays. InCommon will only sign metadata **once** during
this holiday break -- on Monday, December 30, 2013 (at approximately
2:30 pm ET).

While our normal business services will be deferred until after the
first of the year, critical federation services will continue to
operate around the clock, including the Discovery Service, the Error
Handling Service, the Gateway Service, and the Metadata Service. Visit
our wiki for more information about these federation services:
https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/lQROAg

All of us at InCommon hope that your holidays are warm and joyous and
include spending time with family and friends. We are grateful that
you are part of the InCommon community, and appreciate all of your
contributions to making this a most successful endeavor. We look
forward to working with you in 2014.

Happy Holidays from all the staff at InCommon/Internet2.

P.S. There are several other holidays throughout the year when we do
not sign metadata. You can see a list of all of the 2014 holidays at
http://www.incommon.org/federation/hours.html