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RE: [Metadata-Support] Metadata changes on shibboleth.net


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  • From: "Cantor, Scott" <>
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  • Subject: RE: [Metadata-Support] Metadata changes on shibboleth.net
  • Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 00:42:08 +0000
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> With the introduction of eduGAIN metadata, we may have just missed a
> Golden Window of Opportunity. If we had a production MDQ server, some
> deployers would have gladly migrated to it given the problems we're
> seeing with the aggregate. Shibboleth IdP V2 deployers don't have that
> option, however. So maybe the Window wasn't quite so Golden after all.

Or maybe you missed a Golden Window to motivate upgrades...

> In any case, I personally believe we need a production MDQ server
> sooner, rather than later. We think we know how to build one of these
> things, but I'm not sure we have the resources to pull it off. So MDQ
> will have to wait for the stars to align (or the gravitational waves
> to superimpose :)

I agree, which I don't think is any secret.

-- Scott




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