[terom]

Renewing the certificates seems technically pointless, but some organizations/federations require it.

Rotating the keys would make some sense, but just swapping the cert for a new one issued against the same keys doesn't. It's the easiest way to fulfill those requirements, because you don't need to synchronize the metadata updates, the signatures are always valid with both the old and new cert.

[emj]

Make senses, most bigger federations do not bother with this luckily for us it is just specific idps.

> synchronize the metadata updates

Sadly I know many implementations that do not handle key changes in the metadata in a smooth way. The two SPs I have from Adobe both require manual updating of one key per idp, making a switch pain to synchronize.