Shibboleth Developer's Meeting, August 16, 2013

Attendees:  Brent, Ian, Marvin, Rod, Scott, Tom

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60 to 90 minute call window.

Brent

Deep in metadata resolver redesign and impl. Existing providers have been refactored in a coarse way to the new resolver API.  Removed the old metadata credential caching bits, to be replaced by a new mechanism which caches the resolved creds directly on the relevant XMLObject via new "object metadata" API (or other name TBD).

Daniel

 A lot of metadata support design discussion this week on the dev list.  At this point I've warmed to the idea of doing some amount of pre-processing in the batch-oriented resovlers, at least for entityID indexing and converting EntitiesDescriptor/@Name data to a representation on EntityDescriptor.  Now also have general working idea about how to handle Extensions, via a plugin interface.

Daniel

Out today.

Ian

Rod

Nothing to report.  NOTE I'm going to be away (business travel/vacation/conference) on and off from Tuesday until 10/17.

Scott

Reimplemented SubjectCanonicalizer code as a context-driven webflow. Redesigned the later stages of authentication to bridge to a SubjectCanonicalizer subflow and back to complete the process. Updated the authentication design page with new summary of the steps involved.

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Anyone : what is the largest metadata we support ?

Note : Rod is going to keep point on Resources, for when he returns. Added subtask IDP-308 "Review and conclude Resource discussion" to IDP-298 "Review Resources and their use", to follow up on Columbus discussion.

Note : Need to understand and mock-up sub-flows.

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