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InCommon has partnered with its peer R&E federations worldwi= de to create the Research and Scholarship Entity Category (R&S), a simple and scalable way for Identity Providers to release minimal amou= nts of required personal data to Service Providers serving the Research and= Scholarship Community. Institutions that certify their IdP for R&S rea= lize the following:
A list of all current R&S IdPs= and SPs is available for your perusal.
The Research & Scholarship (R&S) Category defines = specific criteria for SPs that are designed to facilitate IdP policy de= cisions to release a controlled set of low-risk attributes to them without = local review for each SP. InCommon also provides metadata and technol= ogy tools to further facilitate automatic, but controlled, release of attri= butes to the R&S SPs, as well as aiding user support.
IdPs leverage this to simplify the management of their Attribute Release= Policies by taking advantage of the R&S Category. With a one-time addi= tion to their default release policies they can specify a set of attributes= to release to all SPs that are in the R&S Category. This addition then= applies to SPs that are added to the category in the future, without the I= DP administrator having to make any changes. IdPs also assert their support= for R&S in federation metadata, allowing R&S-certified SPs to enha= nce the user experience of those IdPs' researchers.
Certifying your IdP or SP for R&S is easy, although SPs do require a= review period to verify compliance with the requirements. See How to Apply for the Researc= h and Scholarship (R&S) Entity Category for details. For more infor= mation specific to IdPs and SPs, see:
When the R&S Category was first introduced for InCommon, it was avai= lable only to InCommon Participants. When REFEDS created the global Research and Scholarship Entity Category described in this docu= ment, therefore, InCommon-only R&S lost most of its relevance. Al= l InCommon-only R&S SPs were converted to global R&S automatically,= but due to changes to the requirements, that could not be done for IdPs. (= See Migrating an IdP to Global Research and Scholarship&nbs= p;for additional historical context.) InCommon-only R&S has been deprec= ated and is no longer issued to IdPs or SPs, but a number of IdPs still ret= ain their InCommon-only status.
It is highly recommended that InCommon-only IdPs add support for R&S= SPs internationally; see How to Apply for the Research and Scholarship (R&S) Entity Ca= tegory for more information.