Per-Entity Metadata Working Group

["Cantor, Scott" <>]

On 9/14/16, 2:27 PM, 
"
 on behalf of Tom Scavo" 
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 on behalf of 
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 wrote:

> For per-entity metadata, it's a totally different story. Fail over
>    needs to be automatic, and the various servers need to be
>    strategically located in geographic regions such that latency is
>    minimized (or at least acceptable).
>
>    Does that help?

It does, but I had the impression CDNs were part of the failover story here, 
that IC would probably operate the "backbone" and perhaps a redundant site 
that might be manual or automatic (preferably the latter of course) but that 
some kind of CDN strategy would be the core of the model.

I really thought the whole idea with CDNs was that the client doesn't need to 
know. I fetch from mdq.incommon.org and the Internet's magical wonderfulness 
routes me to the best option and constantly monitors for options being down 
without me having to care.

I'm starting to come to grips with GSLB here in a campus context, and that's 
what they (will) do for us. Mercifully, this is a stateless service unlike an 
IdP, so the issues are much simpler.

-- Scott