Best Practices for Metadata Management

[Tom Scavo]

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 11:56 AM, Tom Zeller <tzeller at dragonacea.biz> wrote:
>> TomZ, does this help? If you have other suggestions, let me know.
>
> I'll take a look.

Thanks.

> Another comment : do we use the word "register" to describe adding
> metadata / trusting a relying-party ?

No, that word is not used AFAIK.

> If not, I suggest maybe we should.
>
> It seems like it's one thing to "join" a federation versus
> "registering metadata with a federation" via "registering a
> federation's metadata"

I think the first two are out of scope. In the latter case, we show
the deployer how to "load federation metadata." See the section
"FileBackedHTTPMetadataProvider" in the "best practices" document.

> and it would be nice to refer folks to a page
> that describes what that means.

I'm not following you...can you be more specific?

> Or maybe OIDC defines "register" for
> us already.

This too is out of scope (at least for now).

Tom