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InCommon makes possible trustworthy academic collaboration that reaches far beyond what a single organization can do on its own, through identity and access management technologies and services that are integrated across the globe. Learn how you can participate:

• READ THIS FIRST: thingsunderstanding-toresearch-considerand-wheneducation-joining-incommonfederation
• Join the InCommon Federation →
• get-startedgoing-afterwith-joining-incommonOnboarding Services in the InCommon Federationincommon-federation
• Working with User Data
• meet-baseline-expectations
• adopt-saml-deployment-profile

Federation News 

April 8, 2024: 2024-incommon-federation-services-roadmap-announcement

InCommon shares its 2024 Federation service enhancements roadmap. 

Apr 1, 2024: Consultation for REFEDS Access Entity Categories Deployment Guidance

Community consultation for TAC's Deployment Guidance for REFEDS Access Entity Categories begins. 

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Working with User Data

• Working with user data

Working with InCommon Metadata

Federation Manager

Use the Federation Manager to upload and publish your metadata to the InCommon FederationPublish Metadata:

• Manage metadata with the Federation Manager
• Sign into Federation Manager →

InCommon Metadata Service

Retrieve IdP and SP metadata in InCommon and R&E federations around the world.Retrieve Metadata:

• Using the InCommon Metadata Service
• Download InCommon metadata

Working with InCommon Wayfinder

• explanation-what-is-incommon-wayfinder
• how-to-configure-service-to-use-wayfinder
• explanation-wayfinder-roadmap

Meet Baseline Expectations 

• be2-implementation-guide-intro
• be2-faq
• Beyond BE2: Operationalizing Baseline Expectations

Enable Federated Research Access

Meet Baseline Expectations

Get help with meeting the requirements of Baseline Expectations 2. Check out the annotated BE2 Implementation Guide; find the answers you are looking for in the BE2 FAQ.

GET NIH Ready

Follow this NIH-readiness resource page; get the latest on NIH's initiative to standardize and streamline federated access to NIH resources and what you need to to to meet its requirements.

• get-nih-ready
• Support Research

& Scholarship (R

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S)Do your part to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic: configure your identity provider to support the REFEDS Research and

• Scholarship category

to rapidly connect your researchers and scientists with international collaborations

• What is REFEDS R&S?
• What do I need to do to support R&S?
• Research resources: apply for R&S category
• R&S Adoption Dashboard

Working with the Discovery Service

Configure the discovery service to help your users easily find their home organizations during federated single sign on.

• Learn about the InCommon Discovery Service

Federation

Practices and References

Help the InCommon Federation help you get the most out of being InCommon. Learn and adopt Federation best practices.

• meet-baseline-expectations
• adopt-saml-deployment-profile
• Declare Qualification and Support with Entity Categories
• Understand SAML Metadata and Its Use in InCommon
• Handle Federated SSO Errors with Error Handling Service  
• Federation Best Practices
• Index of Technical References
• InCommon Policies and  Practices
• Get Software: InCommon Trusted Access Platform
• Microsoft Azure AD Documentation - University multilateral federation solutions

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