IdPv3 and its metadata ?

[Tom Zeller]

> I'm not sure what the endpoint should be (/SAML/Metadata seems more natural) but if the question is "should the automatically generated metadata for the entity be available by default at a pre-defined location" I'd say that the answer should be yes. This means that it's easier for a federation operator to help out a relatively unskilled IdP deployer, for example.

If the published metadata is static (like v2) rather than dynamic
(like the SP), then is the publishing of that static metadata still
useful to the federation operator ?