2016 Holiday Technology Checklist for InCommon Site Administrators
Mark your calendars now! The Internet2 offices will be closed from 5:00pm ET, Thursday, December 22, 2016 to 8:00am ET, Tuesday, January 3, 2017. Reduced metadata processing will occur during this interval as follows:
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Reduced Metadata Signing Operations
NOTE WELL! Metadata processing and signing will occur on Wednesday, December 28, 2016 at approximately 12:00pm ET! No other metadata signings are scheduled during the holiday period!
See the published InCommon Hours of Operation for more information.
Federation Manager scheduled maintenance
You may want to add these items to your holiday shopping list
- Upgrade to Shibboleth IdP V3 now!
- Shibboleth IdP V2 reached end-of-life on July 31, 2016
- For a list of IdPs that have (or have not) upgraded to V3, see: List of Shibboleth IdPs by Version
- TIP: Shibboleth IdP V3.3.0 was announced on November 11, 2016
- Support the global Research & Scholarship Category!
- Information for SP owners wishing to apply for R&S
- Information for IdP operators wanting to support R&S SPs
- See: List of Global Research and Scholarship Entities
- Support the InCommon Federated Error Handling Service!
- Add an Error Handling URL (
errorURL
) to your IdP metadata - To check if your
errorURL
is working properly, see: List of errorURLs in IdP Metadata - Add an administrative contact to IdP metadata (see: Contacts in Metadata)
- Add an Error Handling URL (
- Migrate to the REFEDS security contact
- Touch your metadata to convert an existing security contact to the new REFEDS syntax
- For a list of entities that include a legacy InCommon security contact, see: List of Legacy Security Contacts
- Is your IdP discoverable?
- Tweak your IdP DisplayName in metadata (if necessary)
- Add a Logo URL to IdP metadata (and publish a favicon on your IdP server)
- Learn more about the Hide From Discovery Category
- Harden the TLS configuration on your IdP server
- Analyze the TLS configuration of your IdP server using SSL Labs