[mdx] Metadata Retrieval Protocol, WD03

[Chad La Joie]

The protocol is not meant to be SAML specific.  And the SAML metadata
spec does already state the IANA registered media type to use.

On 5/5/10 7:50 AM, Thomas Lenggenhager wrote:
> Hi Chad,
> 
> Thanks for the reminder, it really slipped my radar.
> 
> Great suggestion from Leif.
> 
> That's the only thing I noticed:
> Shouldn't it be somewhere written, that the Accept header for SAML
> Metadata MUST be application/samlmetadata+xml? Currently it is only
> visible in the examples. Or is this already unambiguous from the
> existing SAML Metadata standards?
> 
> Thomas
> 
> On 15.04.10 21:50, Chad La Joie wrote:
>> After a long hiatus, I'm back to working on this stuff.  Attached is
>> draft 3 of the metadata retrieval protocol.  The most significant change
>> is in the layout.
>>
>> The actual content changes include:
>> - Explicit statement of HTTP status codes used by the service
>> - Explicit requirement to support md5 and sha1 hashing mechanisms as
>> identifier transformations
>>
>> Leif has recommended, and I've agreed to, submit this document to the
>> IETF experimental track.  So, if you could, please have your comments
>> back to me by the end of next week.  At which point I'll incorporate
>> them and prepare the document for submission to the IETF.
> 

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