<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 18, 2025, at 8:34 AM, Mittel, Don via users <users@shibboleth.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Good to know Bruce. I was already working on updating my backup server to the new MDQ method, guess I need to get that done before the 25th.</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thanks,</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Don</div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>While there are any number of great reasons to switch to MDQ, and you should, note the aggregate is not (yet) going away. Only the original location for it is going away. The following URL will continue to deliver an aggregate, but with the MDQ signing cert used, not the original one for the original aggregate location.<div><br></div><div> https://mdq.incommon.org/entities</div><div><br></div><div>As documented here:</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/MDQ/how-to-locate-metadata-with-mdq">https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/MDQ/how-to-locate-metadata-with-mdq</a></div><div><br></div><div><div>
<div>--<br>Michael A. Grady<br>IAM Architect, Unicon, Inc.</div><div><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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