The SAML V2.0 Metadata Extensions for Registration and Publication Information is a specification for a set of extension elements to SAML metadata. These elements are particularly important for the purposes of interfederation. For example, every entity descriptor exported to eduGAIN calls out the globally unique identifier of the registrar that registered that entity descriptor. See the sidebar for a complete list of registrars currently exporting metadata to eduGAIN.
Registration Info
Since metadata registrars rely on a wide variety of operating principles, we expect some metadata consumers to care who the registrar is, at least in the short term. To accommodate this potential need, a globally unique identifier for the InCommon registrar will be inserted into metadata:
...
| Div | ||
|---|---|---|
| ||
|
...