<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 5:01 PM Brent Putman <<a href="mailto:putmanb@georgetown.edu">putmanb@georgetown.edu</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
And of course there won't be any parent on individual
EntityDescriptors resolved using MDQ or other dynamic approaches.
That's actually an example of where we might come up with
alternative ways to define entity groups, and those might then get
represented in the same consistent on EntityDescriptor object
metadata.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks for pointing out that use case, which is quite important. There's no sense trying to predict the future, so I'll stick with walking the tree for now and keep an eye on the dynamic metadata capability as it develops. I did a quick search for an IdP issue tracking that work but didn't see it; let me know if there is one so I can add myself as watcher.</div><div><br></div><div>M</div><div><br></div></div></div>