Steven Carmody (17 Oct 2006):
The Shibboleth and InQueue support teams announce the closing of the InQueue test federation. InQueue has served the Shibboleth community for several years as a testbed and learning facility, but as the community has grown InQueue has become increasingly impractical to operate, and has been superseded by other services.
InQueue operation will be shut down in phases. Here is the schedule:
- October 30, 2006: No new registrations will be taken after this date.
- December 22, 2006: No modifications to existing registrations will be done after this date.
- June 1, 2007: Publishing of InQueue metadata and operation of the InQueue WAYF will cease.
For those wanting to test their Shibboleth installations, the TestShib facility (http://testshib.org) is available.
Most SAML/Shibboleth-based federations are able to assist prospective members with installation and testing to interoperate with those federations. A partial list of federations can be found on the Community page of the Shibboleth web site.
For more information about InQueue, its history, and its issues, see below.
Comments can be sent to inqueue-support@internet2.edu.
History
The Shibboleth team created the InQueue Federation during the early days of the Shibboleth project, long before there were any production Federations. The goal was to provide a way for sites to explore and learn about the Shibboleth software in an easy and straightforward fashion, at no cost. Using InQueue allowed sites to build local confidence in the technical and policy aspects of federation. InQueue has provided organizations with the ability to verify that their deployments (SP, IdP, or both) interoperate with other sites without having to worry about strong security (since InQueue is just for testing purposes).
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