A discovery service is used to allow users to pick their own Home Organisation IdP.

Services and Endpoints

Since june 2020 SWAMID has the following recommendation regarding Discovery Services:

URL	Protocol	Use
https://service.seamlessaccess.org/ds/	SAML Discovery	Recommended for all services with users from SWAMID member organisations and interfederations
https://md.nordu.net/role/idp.ds	SAML Discovery	This discovery service is no longer recommended as a first choice within SWAMID.
https://md.nordu.net/swamid.ds	SAML Discovery	This discovery service is no longer recommended as a first choice within SWAMID. The discovery service contains SWAMID member organisations

QA

There is also a QA discovery service which can be used for test and pre-production use.

URL	Protocol	Use
https://ds.qa.swamid.se/ds	SAML Discovery	Recommended for test and pre-production

Software

All discovery services run software from the pyff.io project.