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All other Federation members will want to make use of the Interfederation-enabled Metadata document, which contains all eduID.at member institutions as well as any SAML entities known via Interfederation agreements, such as eduGAIN. Those interfederated entities are bound by the policies of their respective Registrars or Home Federations.

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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 4-hour refresh (i.e., re-downloading and evaluating the eduID.at SAML metadata 6 times a day – or less often if it can be established that the metadata hasn't changed on the HTTP layer, cf. conditional HTTP GET), shortening the time it takes for the software to learn of new, changed or removed entities.

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