Re: [saml-dev] discovery?

[John Merrells <merrells@sxip.com>]

On 30-Mar-06, at 10:25 AM, John Merrells wrote:

> Is there a profile that includes 'IpD iscovery'? By which I mean a  
> user interacts
> with a relying party and tells it who their IdP is. The RP then  
> talks to the IdP to see
> what services it provides... then the regular request/response occurs.

MetaData, page 29+ answers most of my questions about how an RP finds  
out
what an IdP can do.

Are there any defined ways for the RP to find out the 'name' of the  
User's IdP?
(Shared cookie? User type's it into a form? Bit of code on the client  
machine?)

John