This page describes the current practice of federations with regard to upstream and downstream metadata publication. Additional information and a recommendation how to best handle local/eduGAIN metadata for a SAML-based identity federation can also be found on Best Current Practices on Joining eduGAIN.
Upstream Approaches:
- Full Opt-in.
- Full Opt-out.
- IdP Opt-in, SP Opt-Out.
- IdP Opt-out, SP Opt-in (Recommended)
...
- Everything in local feed.
- Choose local or local+interfederation.
- Separate1 (all).
- Seperate2 (IdP, SP).
- Separate3 (all,IdP, SP).
- Consume directly from MDS. (Not recommended!)
- Custom.
| Federation | Upstream | Downstream |
Armenia | Full Opt-Out | |
| Austria - eduID.at/ACOnet Identity Federation | Full Opt-In | Entities choose either local or local+interfed feed |
| Australia | Full Opt-In | |
| Belarus | ?? | |
| Belgium - Belnet Federation | Full Opt-In | Entities consume the MDS metadata directly |
| Brazil - CaFe | Full Opt-In | Entities consume the MDS metadata directly |
| Canada - Canadian Access Federation | Full Opt-In | Imported entities in a separate aggregate (all) |
| Chile - COFRe | Full Opt-In | Imported entities into 2 separate aggregates (SP, IdP) |
| Colombia - COLFIRE | Full Opt-In | Entities consume the MDS metadata directly |
| Croatia - AAI@EduHr | IdP Opt-Out, SP Opt-In | Imported entities in main (local) aggregate |
| Czech Republic - eduID.cz | Full Opt-In | Entities choose either local or local+interfed feed |
| Denmark - WAYF | IdP Opt-In, SP Opt-Out | Currently working on new approach |
| Ecuador - MINGA | Full Opt-In | Entities consume the MDS metadata directly |
| Estonia - TAAT | Full Opt-In | Imported entities in 3 separate aggregates (all, SP, IdP) |
| Finland - HAKA | Full Opt-In | custom metadata per entity |
| IdP Opt-Out, SP Opt-In | Imported entities into 2 separate aggregates (SP, IdP) | |
| Georgia - Grena Identity Federation | Full Opt-In | unknown |
| Germany - DFN | Full Opt-In | Imported entities into 2 separate aggregates (SP, IdP) |
| Greece - GRNET! | Full Opt-In | Imported entities into 2 separate aggregates (SP, IdP) |
| Hungary - eduId.hu | Full Opt-In | Imported entities in a separate aggregate (all) |
| India | IdP Opt-Out, SP Opt-In | |
| Ireland - Edugate | Full Opt-In | custom metadata per entity |
| Israel - IUCC Identity Federation | Full Opt-In | Entities consume the MDS metadata directly |
| Italy - IDEM | IdP Opt-Out, SP Opt-In | Imported entities in a separate aggregate (all) |
| Japan - GakuNin | Full Opt-In | unknown |
| Korea | Full Opt-In | |
| Latvia - LAIFE | Full Opt-In | Imported entities in 3 separate aggregates (all, SP, IdP) |
| Lithuania - LITNET FEDI | Full Opt-In | Imported entities in 3 separate aggregates (all, SP, IdP) |
| Luxembourg - eduID Luxembourg | Full Opt-In | unknown |
| Macedonia | Full Opt-Out | |
| Moldova | Full Opt-Out | |
| Norway - FEIDE | Full Opt-In | Imported entities in a separate aggregate (all) |
| Poland - PIONIER.Id | Full Opt-In | Imported entities into 2 separate aggregates (SP, IdP) |
| Portugal - RCTSaai | Full Opt-In | unknown |
| Slovenia - ArnesAAI | Full Opt-In | Imported entities into 2 separate aggregates (SP, IdP) |
| South Africa - SAFIRE | IdP Opt-Out, SP Opt-In | Imported entities in a separate aggregate (IdP) |
| Spain - SIR | Full Opt-In | Entities consume the MDS metadata directly IdPs have custom feeds built |
| Sweden - SWAMID | IdP Opt-Out, SP Opt-In | Imported entities in main aggregate |
| Switzerland - SWITCHaai | Full Opt-In | Local feed + imported entities in 2 separate aggregates (SP, IdP) |
| The Netherlands - SURFconext | Full Opt-In | eduGAIN SPs need to be separately onboarded |
| U.S. - InCommon | IdP Opt-Out, SP Opt-In | Imported entities in main (local) aggregate |
| Ukraine - PEANO | Full Opt-In | Imported entities in a separate aggregate (all) |
| United Kingdom - UK federation | Full Opt-Out (IdP and SP) | Imported entities in main (local) aggregate |