Below a functional description of the UKAAF implementation, as commuicated communicated with Alax Stuart on 14-10-2021 2021:
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Ian's
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said
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in
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another
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forum
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"It's
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perhaps
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worth
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mentioning
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that
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the
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MDQ
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specification
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was
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designed
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for
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the
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possibility
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of
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just
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serving
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documents
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from
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disk
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like
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this;
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the
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web
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service
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approach
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was
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nice
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for
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prototyping
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but
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it's
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easier
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to
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scale
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"just
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serve
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up
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some
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files
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with
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funny
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names"."
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1.
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The
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splitting
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of
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the
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EntitiesDescriptor
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(and
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all
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the
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metadata
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pipeline)
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is
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done
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by
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the
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Shibboleth
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MDA.
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https://github.com/ukf/ukf-meta/blob/master/mdx/uk/mdq-multisign.xml
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is
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the
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MDQ
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signing.
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2.
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We
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tar
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up
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the
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individual
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signed
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files
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and
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push
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to
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our
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httpd-based
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Metadata
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Publication
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Service.
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3.
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We
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unpack
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the
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tarfile
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&
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create
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gzipped
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version,
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SHA-formatted
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names
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and
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symlinks
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in
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a
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githook
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(one
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of
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Rhys'
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crazy
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/
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effective
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ideas).
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Shell
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commands
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here:
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4.
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The
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httpd
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config
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hasn't
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been
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published
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yet.
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I
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need
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to
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get
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it
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Apache-licensed
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like
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the
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rest
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of
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our
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output
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&
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then
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I
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can
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send
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you
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the
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link.
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But
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it's
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not
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difficult:
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we
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ensure
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GZIP
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compression
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is
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supported
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&
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force
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everything
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to
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application/samlmetadata+xml