This page describes the current practice of federations with regard to upstream and downstream metadata publication. Additional information and a recommendation how to best handle local/eduGAIN metadata for a SAML-based identity federation can also be found on Best Current Practices on Joining eduGAIN.
Upstream Approaches:
- Full Opt-in.
- Full Opt-out.
- IdP Opt-in, SP Opt-Out.
- IdP Opt-out, SP Opt-in (Recommended)
Downstream Approaches:
- Everything in local feed.
- Choose local or local+interfederation.
- Separate1 (all).
- Seperate2 (IdP, SP).
- Separate3 (all,IdP, SP).
- Consume directly from MDS. (Not recommended!)
- Custom.