Non Incommon SPs

[Tom Scavo]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Bryan E. Wooten <bryan.wooten at utah.edu> wrote:
>
> We are working with an outside vendor that is not a member of Incommon. They
> claim to be SAML 2 SP compliant (unknown SP software).
>
> They have never heard of Shibboleth (or eduPerson) and have no interest in
> joining Incommon.

Oh dear.

> What are the steps we can make to make this possible? Do we require they
> provide us with their SP's metadata or can we create that on our own.

Only the SP knows what its metadata looks like.

> I am
> also not sure about certificate exchange for SAML assertions.

It's in the metadata.

> Any idea the level of effort we will need to make this happen (man hours)?

Man minutes required, I think. Configure your IdP to consume their
metadata. Point them to InCommon metadata for yours (but I bet that
goes over like a lead balloon).

Tom