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• Service Providers registered with ACOnet also offering their services via Interfederation, as well as
• all Identity Providers registered with ACOnet, including but not limited to those participating in Interfederation.
  (Only SPs will be relevant to an IDP and communication with SPs is best managed via attribute release policies, not metadata exclusion.)

Metadata validity and refresh

Currently eduID.at Metadata is being signed daily (or more often) and validity (validUntil) is being set to +14 days in the future each time. That means consumers of this metadata will need to refresh (re-download and evaluate) eduID.at metadata at least every 14 days, which a correctly configured software will do automatically. (Note that this validity window may be shortened further in the future without prior notice.)

The example Metadata Filters in this set of documentation are using a maximum validity of 28 days, i.e., software configured that way would reject SAML metadata that (a) does not have any upper limit in its validity, and (b) where validity exceeds 28 days in the future.

Consumers of eduID.at Metadata (i.e., SAML IDPs and SPs and potentially SAML IDP Discovery Services) should refresh SAML metadata at least once a day, but preferrably more often. The example Metadata Providers in this documentation are set to a 2-hour refresh (i.e., re-downloading and evaluating the eduID.at SAML metadata 12 times a day), shortening the time it takes for the software to learn of new, changed or removed entities.