Is it safe to manually alter IDP metadata?

[Cantor, Scott]

On 1/15/13 12:22 PM, "Fabio Spelta" <fabio.spelta at unimib.it> wrote:
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>We would like to clean up our metadata according to this. Is it just
>fine to remove any reference like this

You can remove anything that you don't use or support.

>from the metadata XML file, then share it with the federation?

The local file is largely irrelevant unless you're trying to keep it in
sync for your own purposes.

>Also, is it fine to "manually" include discovery hints (both
>geolocation and IP-based) in the metadata as well? Is there any
>problem we could incur in?

The only metadata that matters is what you provide to others. What they'll
accept, use, or reject will vary by federation or partner. Doing that
locally will do nothing helpful or harmful.

-- Scott