InCommon metadata support

[Nick Roy <>]

HEAnet, Ireland's NREN, has developed a very nice metadata management system, 
called Jagger: http://jagger.heanet.ie/

You may be interested in looking at this for local metadata management needs.

Nick

On 2/23/16, 9:05 AM, 
"
 on behalf of Tom Scavo" 
<
 on behalf of 
>
 wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Jeffrey Eaton 
><>
> wrote:
>> On Feb 23, 2016, at 10:18 AM, Tom Scavo 
>> <>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> For the CMU SPs that interoperate with the CMU IdP only, would a
>>> single entity descriptor help? As an example, consider this metadata
>>> served from mdq-beta:
>>>
>>> http://mdq-beta.incommon.org/global/entities/https%3A%2F%2Flogin.cmu.edu%2Fidp%2Fshibboleth
>>>
>>> If we provided a production version of the above metadata, would you
>>> find that useful?
>>
>> That certainly would be preferable to consuming the full metadata file for
>> those SPs which only need one single IDP.  I may still end up going down 
>> the
>> path of having my own IDP metadata files signed and served locally, so that
>> I can have various combinations of files (ones with our test IDP, ones with
>> login.cmu.edu and identity.andrew.cmu.edu which serves as our social
>> gateway, ones with our CS department's IDP which is not in InCommon, etc),
>> and then let the SP choose which they want to consume.
>
>Right, I get that, and btw, there has been discussion along these
>lines on the shib users mailing list recently:
>
>http://marc.info/?t=145527812600001&r=1&w=2
>http://marc.info/?t=145461695700015&r=1&w=2&n=8
>http://marc.info/?t=145263559200002&r=1&w=2&n=18
>
>I predict that soon many campuses (and others) will be running their
>own metadata aggregation services.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Tom