Per-Entity Metadata Working Group

[Scott Koranda <>]

> > b) periodically downloading an aggregate that contains all of
> > the entities (since we expect aggregates to stay around for
> > some time) and writing it to the side on disk but not using it
> > except when detecting that MDQ queries are failing (hence not
> > having to take up memory when not necessary).
> 
> No, apart from discovery-motivated necessities, but not for basic use, no.

Again, to be pedantic:

Is your argument that the extra costs for the Shibboleth team
and the complexity of such a design outweigh the perceived
benefit of being able to load metadata for a "not-recently
required entity" during a MDQ service outage?

Thanks,

Scott K