To apply to include your service provider in the Research & Scholarship (R&S) category, a principal investigator, site administrator, technical contact, or an otherwise responsible individual should complete and submit the application on

Before applying, make sure to read the following documents in order to answer the validation questions in the application:

The REFEDS Research & Scholarship Entity Category specification
The InCommon Participation Agreement (especially section 9)

Questions? Please send email to help@incommon.org with "R&S Application" in the subject line.

Service Provider Application for the R&S Category

* Field marked with an asterisk requires a response.

Service Information

Organization Name required

Enter the name of your organization as it appears in the OrganizationName in metadata.

Service Name required

Enter the name of your service as it appears in the mdui:DisplayName field in metadata.

Entity ID required

Enter the entityID of your service as it is registered in the InCommon metadata.

Multiple federations? required

Yes

No

Is this entity cross registered in multiple R&E federations other than InCommon?

Information URL required

Your Information URL is the same as the InformationURL in metadata.

Statement of Purpose required

Describe the purpose of your service as it relates to research and scholarly collaboration.

Submitter Information

My Name required

My Email required

A copy of this application form will be sent to this email address.

My Affiliation required

What is your affiliation with this service (PI, site administrator, technical contact, service operator, etc.)?

Eligibility and requirements conformance

R&S Eligible required

I certify that this service is operated for the purposes of supporting research and scholarship interaction, collaboration or management, at least in part. [This must be true to comply.]

SAML 2 required

I certify that my service is a production SAML deployment. It supports the SAML V2.0 HTTP-POST binding.

Refresh metadata required

I certify that my service refreshes and verifies IdP metadata from the InCommon metadata aggregate at least daily.

Publish metadata required

I've verified that the metadata for this service has been submitted and published in the InCommon's public metadata aggregate.

MDUI required

I've verified that my service's published metadata contains valid MDUI DisplayName and MDUI InformationURL.

Request attributes in metadata required

I've verified that my service's published metadata includes the requested attributes.

R&S attribute bundle

I've verified that the requested attributes in metadata are a subset of the R&S attribute bundle. (We STRONGLY RECOMMEND this practice to maximize interoperability with IdPs)

Acknowledgements

InCommon participant required

I've verified that my organization is an active InCommon participant that has signed the InCommon Participant Agreement. I have read the InCommon Participation Agreement and understand that my service is bound by this Agreement. My service is subject to the Privacy constraints outlined in section 9 of the Participant Agreement.

R&S declaration required

I have read the Research & Scholarship Entity Category specification and hereby declare that my service satisfies the requirements of this specification.

Minimal user information required

I certify that my service requests only those attributes required to operate the service.

Responsible use required

I agree that my service will not use attributes for purposes that fall outside of the service definition. [This must be true to comply.]