InCommon metadata support

[Ian Young <>]

> On 19 Feb 2016, at 14:16, Scott Koranda 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
> Tom and Ian, 
> 
> My naive understanding is that the MDQ includes a query type that
> essentially delivers the equivalent of the current static
> metadata aggregate.
> 
> Is that correct?

The spec says that if you do a GET at .../entities (instead of 
.../entities/entityName), you get an aggregate with all of the entities in 
it, yes. It's also potentially valid to assign other identifiers to arbitrary 
collections, so locations like .../entities/all-entities.xml can be made 
valid (that's an "entity name" of "all-entities.xml", just to be clear).

The intention of having that in the spec was to allow a transition from 
aggregate to per-entity metadata at a single location.

> If so, could you transparently deliver from the same URL the
> same "static" aggregate using the MDQ?

One difference would be with respect to signatures. The static aggregates are 
signed using an offline key, the per-entity metadata and the /entities 
aggregate on mdq-beta are signed online using a different key at present.

    -- Ian

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