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We need a global test federation service that people can play with to make sure their software/deployments are interoperable, create new things and look at the impact on existing deployments, investigate new types of proxies, deploy test appliances to check for compliance with standards, etc.

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To slow the proliferation of bad SAML implementations, give people a place to test, and to invent new things. This same test federation service could be where we test the concepts of OIDC Federation, too.

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