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It's time to move to REFEDS Research and Scholarship category
The InCommon-Only only Research and Scholarship (R&S) category has been replaced by the REFEDS RResearch & S Scholarship category. If your identity provider still supports InCommon-only R&S, it is now time to switch support to the REFEDS R&Scategory.
All qualifying resources in the R&S categoryresources, including those qualifying collaborations spinning up to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, are part of REFEDS R&S. Your IDP IdP must release attributes under the REFEDS R&S category to enable seamless user access to these research collaboration resources.
You can read the history below, but the short story is that there are no longer any service providers in the InCommon-only category, so that category effectively does nothing today.
How do I migrate my
IDPIdentity Provider (IdP) from InCommon-only R&S to REFEDS R&S?
One. | Review the REFEDS R&S specification, particularly section 5. , Identity Provider Requirements. |
Two. | Configure your IDP IdP to release attributes to REFEDS R&S SPs. |
Three. | Declare support for REFEDS R&S:
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How do I remove the InCommon-only R&S entity attribute from my metadata?
Since there is no longer any InCommon-only R&S service providers, The InCommon-only R&S entity attribute and related attribute release configuration effectively does nothing today. For now, besides declaring support for REFEDS R&S, you do not need to do anything. The Incommon InCommon Federation will announce a "clean-up" date in the near future to remove the InCommon-only R&S tag from all identity providers registered in InCommon.
What are the differences between the two R&S categories?
See Comparing REFEDS and InCommon-only R and S categories.
Let's back up - what is a category?
An Entity Category includes services that have been vetted and tagged by a federation operator as meeting the criteria of the category. For Research & Scholarship, for example, services must support research or scholarly collaborations. Identity Providers can then safely release a small set of data to these providers with the knowledge that they meet minimal requirements and privacy requirements. Identity Providers release the data to the category, which means any new service added to the category will automatically receive the necessary information.
History
The Research and Scholarship (R&S) category was first introduced within the Incommon InCommon Federation , and available only to InCommon participants. In 2014, with R&E research and education federations around the world coming together to form the global eduGAIN federation, the continued curation of the R&S category moved under the stewardship of REFEDS (the Research and Education FEDerations group) to promote international adoption. REFEDS Research and Scholarship Entity Category was born. All Service Providers (SP) who previously qualified for the InCommon-only R&S category were automatically converted to REFEDS R&S.
Because identity providers (IDP) needed need to take explicit actions to support REFEDS R&S, we couldn't automatically convert IDPs IdPs to REFEDS R&S. However, as As there is are no more longer any InCommon-only R&S SPs, if your IDP still only support InCommon-only R&S, it's time to move to support REFEDS R&Syou can't benefit from the category without moving your support to the global REFEDS service.
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