Metadata Invalid at time of acquisition

[Tom Scavo]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Roger Jagoda <rberryj3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2013-06-10 12:18:41 ERROR OpenSAML.MetadataProvider.XML : metadata
> instance was invalid at time of acquisition
> 2013-06-10 12:18:41 CRIT OpenSAML.Metadata.Chaining : failure
> initializing MetadataProvider: Metadata instance was invalid at time
> of acquisition.
>
> In this SP, the Metadata is not Federated anywhere so it is stored
> locally. So what is this error trying to tell us? How does Metadata
> become invalid, and yet still work?

Is there a validUntil XML attribute on the root element with a
dateTime string in the past?

Tom