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Organizations Urged to Move to Metadata Query Service

By Nick RoyDirector of Technology & Strategy, InCommon On Thursday, January 30th, the InCommon Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) accepted the final report of the Internet2 Trust and Identity Services Operations project which put Metadata Query (MDQ) into production. With the TAC’s sign-off on that report, the community has officially accepted the state of the MDQ…

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New Metadata Query Service Available for Production Use

By Nick Roy, Director of Technology and Strategy, InCommon InCommon’s brand new metadata service went live on Tuesday, July 9th. The production release candidate of the new metadata query service (MDQ) – also known as per-entity metadata – incorporates new features to save significant amounts of memory and start-up time for InCommon participants’ federating software.…