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Frequently, a relying party (RP) is capable of supporting authentication of users and exchange of identity information using more than one protocol. Unfortunately, the user experience for these RPs is often confusing and includes options that are not supported by the browser.

This document describes a format for RPs to use to express their capabilities and requirements to browsers.

RP Metadata Reference

The RP embeds an element on its login page that contains an ordered sequence of references to metadata files specific to each of the RP's supported login protocols, in order of preference. This allows an enhanced browser to only download metadata for protocols it supports. The login page also contains legacy login markup for unenhanced browsers. Additionally, an RP can include a privacy policy related to the identity informaiton it receives.

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   <RPLoginMetadata>
      <xrd:XRD xmlns:xrd="xri://$xrd*($v*2.0)" version="2.0">
         <xrd:Type>xri://$xrds*simple</xrd:Type>
         <xrd:Service>
            <xrd:Type>http://www.kantarainitiative.org/metadata/1.0/rplogin</xrd:Type>
            <xrd:Subject>http://www.kantarainitiative.org/metadata/1.0/saml2</xrd:Subject>
            <xrd:URI simple:httpMethod="GET">http://rp.com/my_saml2_login_metadata.xml</xrd:URI>
         </xrd:Service>
         <xrd:Service>
            <xrd:Type>http://www.kantarainitiative.org/metadata/1.0/rplogin</xrd:Type>
            <xrd:Subject>http://www.kantarainitiative.org/metadata/1.0/imi</xrd:Subject>
            <xrd:URI simple:httpMethod="GET">http://rp.com/my_imi_login_metadata.xml</xrd:URI>
         </xrd:Service>
         <xrd:Service>
            <xrd:Type>http://www.kantarainitiative.org/metadata/1.0/rplogin</xrd:Type>
            <xrd:Subject>http://www.kantarainitiative.org/metadata/1.0/openid</xrd:Subject>
            <xrd:URI simple:httpMethod="GET">http://rp.com/my_openid_login_metadata.xml</xrd:URI>
         </xrd:Service>
		 <xrd:Service>
            <xrd:Type>http://www.kantarainitiative.org/metadata/1.0/rpprivacypolicy</xrd:Type>
            <xrd:URI simple:httpMethod="GET">http://rp.com/my_privacy_metadata.xml</xrd:URI>
         </xrd:Service>
      </xrd:XRD>
   </RPLoginMetadata>

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