Hi Ross,
Thanks for your informative email. Your tailored WAYF for Zetoc sounds interesting!
You quote the UK Technical recommendations for participants, including: "... For these reasons, all federation members are strongly recommended to refresh the metadata used by their entities on a regular basis. A daily refresh operation should be regarded as normal."
And then you comment:
> I think "daily refresh" may be over-the-top at this moment, but it is
> in everyone's interest to get data updated and cascaded in timely
> way.
As someone involved in editing federation metadata, I would say that daily refresh is not at all 'over the top', and should certainly be regarded as normal.
John
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