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https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/Multi-Context+Brokerhttps://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/InCAssurance/Multi-Context+Broker
David reported that the The Multi Context Broker was released in March 2014 and is getting use, moving into production in some institutions. There are a few enhancements coming up planned over the next few months:
- The MCB has not been honoring the default authentication context that can be specified for a relying party if the relying party does not request an authentication context in the protocol. So support for that will be added.
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- University of Chicago raised some concerns around how forced reauthentication occurs, This is related to how we have implemented Duo and Duo-like technologies in the MCB. There will be an option to keep the current behavior of the MCB or change it.
MCB in view of the upcoming release of Shib V3
- Discussion is now underway on how the MCB will work with Shib v3.
- Shib V3 has some of the functionality of the MCB
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- A gap analysis is being conducted. Some issues around configuration files are being looked at.
- In about a month there should be a proposal around MCB and Shib v3
- The team is
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- committed to a good upgrade / conversion path
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