<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Prashant,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I haven’t been involved in this work at all other than to explain my historical role and reasoning. I have no idea what timelines are planned, why it’s broken, or how it’s broken, and I don’t like to risk breaking others’ work.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I did pose a question, which I think will be hard to answer: “valid metadata in whose eyes?” It’s never been consistent, not even within Shibboleth’s own implementations.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That shouldn’t derail the work at all, but it may have been enough to cause a pause. I don’t know.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">TestShib is a completely volunteer service, though. It receives no funding from anywhere. It never really has.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That makes it best-effort at best. If it is something that you need to see supported, I would suggest writing to the Shibboleth Consortium.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Take care,</div><div class="">Nate.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 3, 2016, at 22:38, Prashant Bapat <<a href="mailto:prashant@apigee.com" class="">prashant@apigee.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">Testshib SP is still down and reports that the metadata is missing. Uploading it again doesn't help either. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">Is there an ETA when this will be back on line ?</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>