Understanding flow / federation

[Bo Lorentsen]

On 2012-09-24 12:30, Peter Schober wrote:
> If there is a federation that provides you with trusted metadata for 
> all your federation partners none of the above is relevant -- which is 
> why I clearly stated "if you need to aggregate and maintain those 
> entities yourself" above (i.e., the conditional doesn't apply). Even 
> when consuming remote metadata a local copy is created to provide 
> resilience in case the remote resource is temporatily unavailable. The 
> IdP software does this for you, if configured. 
Ok, this may be nice to know ... later. For now the metadata loads as it 
I expected so I will stop panicking for a while, and read some more :-)
> How about having a look at the documentation? 
I hear You, time to read it one more time, and hope some of it will 
remain inside inside my brain :-)

Thanks for the push !

/BL