Archaeology

[Cantor, Scott]

> If you haven't seen it yet, a new History of SAML Metadata [3] has
> recently appeared. The origins of SAML Metadata are clearly traced to
> the Liberty Alliance, but the origins of *that* are mostly unknown.
> It's likely that Shibboleth Metadata => Liberty Metadata => SAML
> Metadata in the same way that the Shibboleth AuthnRequest Protocol
> ultimately influenced SAML2.

Liberty was well baked by the time we got involved, our uniqueish requirements were fed into SAML 2 when the "great convergence" was done. But there wasn't much we had done that wasn't already part of Liberty's metadata schema in some form.

-- Scott