[mdx] Hi from a new guy

[Leif Johansson]

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On 09/14/2012 07:56 PM, Andy Dale wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Andy Dale from OCLC here. We are in the middle of setting up an 
> ?internal? SAML federation for us and some of our members. In the
> next couple of months the federation will grow to 20,000 members
> and next year will at least double from that. Having everyone
> download and cache the entire SAML Metadata is clearly unreasonable
> and unworkable... Hence my interest in this group.

Kewl

> 
> I have noticed that the spec seems to be quite old and that there
> are what appear to be unresolved discussion threads  on this list
> that may indicate an edit might be in order.  I?m afraid to say I
> also have some ideas of how I would like to optimize Metadata
> retrieval that I would be interested to get vetted by some folks
> smarter than me  (that?s you).
> 
> So first... Is there anyone still on this list that wants to make 
> progress? Are there other lists we should notify and include if we
> do

I desperately want to make progress!

I'm currently implementing the draft+comments for my own metadata
processor: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyFF

The refeds.org community is watching this too but I think we can stick
with this list.

> want to proceed? I?m willing to do a little wrangling and maybe
> even a little documentation of consensus if there are interested
> participants.
> 

Fantastic!

What do you think of the current issues? Do you have issues of your
own - and if so can you record those on github?

	Cheers Leif
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