Federation practices

• Incident Handling
• Domain control validation procedure
• InCommon metadata validation procedure
• Metadata Registration Practice Statement (for eduGAIN participation)
• List of InCommon policies and procedures

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)

• OASIS SAML Wiki - The Bible to all things SAML.
• Wikipedia article on SAML 2.0 - A quick-ish primer.

Improving Interoperability 

• Final Report of the InCommon Deployment Profile Working Group (draft)
• SAML V2.0 Interoperability Deployment Profile (saml2int)
• SAML V2.0 Subject Identifier Attributes Profile
• SAML V2.0 metadata extension for entity attributes 

Working with federation metadata

• SAML V2.0 metadata guide
• SAML profile for metadata query protocol
• SAML V2.0 identity provider discovery protocol
• SAML V2.0 metadata extension for entity attributes 
• The Entity Category Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Attribute Types
• REFEDS Hide from Discovery entity category specification
• REFEDS Research and Scholarship entity category specification
• Federation Manager user guide
• Metadata Query Protocol

Getting the attributes right

• Working with user data in InCommon 
• SAML V2.0 Subject Identifier Attributes Profile
• eduPerson schema
• Attribute bundle for the Research and Scholarship entity category (section 5. Attribute Bundle)

Software references

• InCommon Federation software guidelines
• InCommon Trusted Access Platform (Deprecated)
• Shibboleth wiki
  • Shibboleth Identity Provider 3 documentation
  • Shibboleth Service Provider 3 documentation
  • Shibboleth knowledge base
• Grouper wiki
• COmanage wiki
• Midpoint wiki

Integration resources

• ADFSToolkit - Connect ADFS to research and education federations.
• Shibboleth integration guides for popular cloud platforms