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Baseline Expectations Health Checks

InCommon performs periodic metadata health checks to share Baseline Expectation adoption progress statistics with participants. To find out how you and your peers are doing, check the Baseline Expectations Adherence by Organization list.

If you would like to find out details about your organization's Baseline Expectations status, please contact help@incommon.org

Baseline Expectations Dashboard - July 17, 2019

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About Baseline Expectations

The Under the guidance of the InCommon Community Trust and Assurance Board , the InCommon community has adopted a set of Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation. The intent is to:

improve interoperability among InCommon Participants
ensure that the Federation has a common level of trust by establishing expectations that all Participants agree to meet.

In addition to the expectations themselves, the community has adopted processes by which InCommon Participants and the InCommon Federation operator keep metadata up to date and keep one-another accountable, including:

Automated checks of metadata by InCommon to give feedback to each Participant about their entities
A process for reaching community consensus on practices that meet the expectations (participate in the consultation)
A process for Participants to raise Baseline Expectations-related and other concerns and get them resolved

hosted a webinar on October 11, 2018 to review Baseline Expectations. The webinar provides an overview of the Baseline Expectations initiative, schedule, and a demo of the Federation Manager, the software Participants use to manage metadata.

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Recording

Baseline Expectations

Foundational Documents

Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation - This core Baseline Expectations document establishes three short lists of expectations expressed at a high level

, one for each of three types of Federation actor: an Identity Provider, a Service Provider, and a Federation Operator

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Process to Maintain Baseline Expectations by InCommon and its Members - This document defines several processes by which InCommon and InCommon Participants will hold each other accountable for meeting Baseline Expectations

, including a community consensus process and a dispute resolution process.