Simple Internal Federation Example?

[Peter Schober]

* Todd Piket <Todd.Piket at csu.mnscu.edu> [2011-10-04 15:51]:
> Has anybody on this list built a simple, internal Shib 2.x
> federation?  If so, would you be willing to let me have sanitized
> XML files for the IdP and SP?

What is an internal federtation? Several SPs, several IdPs? One IdP?
How would you expect the metadata describing these entities to differ
from "non-internal" federations (such as InCommon)?
With XML files you're referring to the complete configuration? I doubt
this will help. The default config is almost usable as is, mostly
removing a couple of comments around elements (e.g. attributes) you'd
like. And configuration files have nothing to do with "internal
federation", so I' not sure what you're asking, I guess.

We have local SPs (not registered with a "paperwork/contract
federation") that are registered at our central IdP. Is that a local
federation? Other systems have several campus (as I've been told the
plural of "campus" is) and hence each may run its own IdP. Even there
looking at individual IdP or SP config files won't help, I suspect.
The question there would be how to organize the "federation", which
what tools, registration practices, metadata signing, etc. (which are
all more questions about processes than XML snippets).
-peter