Per-Entity Metadata Working Group

[Scott Koranda <>]

No worries.

I promise we want and will solicit all comments and input--first though we just need enough space to be able to write and then edit ourselves (I am just not capable of writing a stream of text without the need to make many, many edits).

Cheers,

Scott

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Nicholas Roy <> wrote:

Ooops, I just replied to Tom before reading this.

*seals lips* :-)

Nick

On 8/30/16 4:06 PM, Scott Koranda wrote:

Hi Tom,

I am very happy for David and I to take the first crack at writing up sections of the report in the wiki, but in order for everyone (including yourself) to work efficiently please hold off on editing and commenting until after we solicit input on specific sections.

That way you will not waste time commenting on text or diagrams that have not been through even one editing cycle by ourselves.

Once a section is ready for review we will be quite happy to receive input from everyone and anyone.

Cheers,

Scott

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Tom Scavo <> wrote:

I see that a new diagram has appeared in the final report:
https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/u4EQBg

Some comments:

1) The green boxes are MDQ client instances
2) Since MDQ clients talk to MDQ servers, the boxes labeled "HTTP
Server" are really MDQ server instances.
3) From a client PoV, there is just one MDQ server. Yes, we've talked
about redundant servers configured as chaining metadata providers but
I don't think we should try to depict that in this diagram.

That means there's an extra layer of infrastructure in the diagram.
The per-entity metadata that we push to the MDQ servers will already
be signed.

Tom