A draft start for discussion kick-start purposes only
Types of signed metadata aggregates:
- MDA (metadata aggregates)
- Export
- international interfed export
- private (aka local) : Where the IdPs and SPs in this MDA are all registered/owned by the parent Org
- private (aka custom): Where the MDA contains a custom set of IdPs and SPs, a subset of InCommon MD plus any private IdPs/SPs not in the InCommon public MDA
- Import
- Importing an international set of IdPs or SPs
- Importing a set from a single Org
- Export
- Per Entity MD: That is, InCommon signs a metadata blob containing one SP or IdP entityDescriptor
Here's another way to look at it
Types of signed metadata aggregates:
- one metadata aggregate for each organization (~400 files)
- per-entity metadata (~1500 files)
- eduGAIN aggregates
- an initial eduGAIN export aggregate might consist of all R&S IdPs and SPs
- import eduGAIN entities that meet our requirements, tag them if necessary, and add them to some unspecified set of aggregates
- UKf aggregates
- an export aggregate of entities that meet UKf requirements
- import UKf entities that meet our requirements, tag them if necessary, and add them to some unspecified set of aggregates