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- Generate entity metadata that is conform with the eduGAIN Metadata Profile by using the eduGAIN Metadata Templates (SAML 2.0 compliant) provided here or, if your Organisation still use the deprecated SAML 1.x standard, ensure to have at least one SAML2 endpoint in your entity's metadata.
- Validate the entity metadata with eduGAIN Metadata Validation tool.
- Contact your Federation and communicate the intention to join to eduGAIN.
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If you have to provide metadata yourself for your entity, have a look at the examples and template metadata files below. They can serve as a starting point that makes the generation a bit easier.
- eduGAIN Metadata Template for Identity Provider (basic idp metadata example, rich idp metadata example)
- eduGAIN Metadata Template for Service Provider (basic sp metadata example, rich sp metadata example)
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Most common SAML implementations (Shibboleth, SimpleSAML PHP) also generate some basic metadata automatically.
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