How does the InCommon 'preview' metadata aggregate work?

[Tom Scavo]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Ken Weiss <ken.weiss at ucop.edu> wrote:
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> Does an IDP get my SP's metadata from an InCommon metadata provider, or does
> the IDP get the metadata directly from my SP?

Today IdPs get most (if not all) of their metadata from a trusted 3rd
party such as InCommon.

> I want to publish new metadata for my SP with InCommon. InCommon has three
> possible metadata aggregates - production, fallback, and preview. I would
> like to test my metadata before I push it into the production aggregate.

That's not what the preview aggregate is intended for but we should
discuss to make sure we're all on the same page. Can you please
subscribe to this mailing list and post this question there:

https://lists.incommon.org/sympa/info/metadata-support

Thanks,

Tom