The Per-Entity Metadata Working Group will:

Work based on the premise that InCommon will be moving toward per-entity MDQ[2] protocol-based distribution of metadata.
Develop a roadmap for addressing the immediate needs for reduced aggregate size, as well as intermediate milestones along a trajectory to a sustainable future state, to be determined. The first items on this roadmap should include building a production service which allows production SAML deployments to exercise their per-entity metadata capabilities, and include checkpoints to improve the service and software when issues are encountered. If short-term steps such as InCommon producing separate IdP and SP feeds are deemed necessary, these items should be included in this roadmap. This roadmap should also address the issue of continued creation (or eventual decommissioning) of multi-entity aggregates.
Address issues and questions that have arisen about the process of moving from where we are to relying on this new model, including but not limited to:

Develop requirements, risks, and recommended risk mitigation strategies for a production per-entity metadata service delivered by InCommon, including a firm definition of the scope of the service, aligned with the immediate needs addressed in the roadmap from (1).
Advise InCommon staff on implementation of a solution, based on the requirements of the service documented in (4).
Compile the outcomes of these investigations into a report to the TAC

The group plans to complete its work in November, 2016. See Per-Entity Metadata Working Group Charter for a complete description of the working group.

Agenda/Notes

Working Group Chair: Scott Koranda

Working Group Flywheel: David Walker

Email list: TBD. To subscribe this list, email sympa@incommon.org with the subject line subscribe TBD

Calls for this working group are hour-long, weekly on TBD

DRAFT Working Documents