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SP registration currently requires a person to send mail to an RT queue for processing. The person has to understand what type of information is required. Someone (Bob) has to edit the MIT-metadata.xml file with the submitted information in order for the registration to become effective.

Phase four: Misc

1. InCommon is strongly advocating the use of inline certificates, i.e. inline in the metadata. This will mean that if MIT SP use a single certificate for the user facing SSL and for Shibboleth, when the certificate has to be renewed, the system administrators will also have to register the new certificate in the MIT, and potentially the InCommon Federation, metadata. Any decisions regarding such a transition at MIT will occur after the initial transition to the next generation of IdPs.
2. InCommon will now accept self-signed certificates, or even certificates issued by the MIT CA, discussion of any such transitions will occur after we have transitioned the IdPs to 2.x. 

Projected timeline

Week of October 26 (~3 days available)

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