Today all entity metadata distributed by InCommon is in the form of signed SAML metadata aggregates. A secure, offline metadata signing process aggregates metadata registered by InCommon Participants together with metadata imported from eduGAIN and pushes the signed metadata aggregates to a secure, publicly accessible metadata server.
Eventually the unwieldy metadata aggregates will give way to per-entity distribution methods such as those based on the Metadata Query Protocol.
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| A Per-Entity Metadata Pilot is in progress until September 1, 2015further notice. |