Per-Entity Metadata Working Group - 2016-10-05
Agenda and Notes
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Attendees
- David Walker, InCommon/Internet2
- IJ, Internet2
- Nick Roy, InCommon
- Tom Scavo, Internet2/InCommon
- Tommy Doan, Southern Methodist University
- Ian Young
- Tom Mitchell, GENI
- Phil Pishioneri, Penn State
- Scott Cantor, tOSU
- Rhys Smith, Jisc
Agenda and Notes
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- NOTE WELL: The call is being recorded.
- Agenda bash
- Highlights of our TechEx session
- We'll recommend TLS, leaving final decision of how to manage keys based on some more research of CDNs. (It won't be the same as the metadata signing cert.)
- For the validUntil setting, Tom Scavo suggested recommended as short a period as operationally feasible.
- A couple of people mentioned that they plan to implement their own MDQ service.
- This was either for increased availability and performance, or because they will be distributing a different set of entity metadata.
- From the Sharepoint session, MDQ helps with clients (like ADFS) that requires TLS.
- ADFS still has challenges with the volume of entities we have.
- Use of a non-commercial cert for this is a good idea, as suggested by ScottC
- Finalizing our report - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MSRAO6FkEltsIM0E9X5y7dnfalephiaIvS1ZE2WTeFM/edit?usp=sharing
- Please add comments and suggested edits for discussion during the call. Please use "suggesting" mode, unless you are correcting grammar, punctuation, etc.
- We'll add section numbers (or some other section identification that Google Docs supports)
- Somewhere, mention impacts on implementation and deployment profiles
- Most notes were made in the document itself. Here are highlights.
- David will draft the executive summary for discussion next week. Any calls to action by InCommon will need to be here, with details in the body of the report.
- Make sure discovery is appropriately highlighted as critical for a significant population of SPs.
- The issue of client bandwidth consumption will be rolled into other client issues.
- In the "Risks of Per-Entity Metadata Distribution" section, we'll note that the risks are not presented in any particular order.
- Regarding "bad" vs. "malicious" actors, we'll look for wording that also includes poor implementations that cause unintended "attacks" on the infrastructure.
- Need better language to describe IdP and SP transactions that require metadata. "SSO web flows" is not right.