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.
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The InCommon Federation delivers trusted, seamless, scalable single sign-on and access management for research collaborations and cloud resources in the U.S. and around the globe. |
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Support Research & Scholarship (R&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
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Happenings
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Federation Manager 5.0 is here. (May 9, 2020) InCommon updates Discovery Service (April 27, 2020) InCommon to adopt remote metadata signing (April 1, 2020) COVID-19 call to action - We need your help (March 26, 2020) |
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Manage metadata with the Federation Manager
Use the Federation Manager to upload, edit, and publish your metadata to the InCommon Federation.
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Using metadata
Find and retrieve metadata for identity providers and service providers in InCommon and R&E federations around the world.
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Handling errors in federated SSO
Create a seamless federated SSO experience for your users. Manage those federated errors with care.
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Working with the discovery service
Configure the discovery service to help your users easily find their home organizations during federated single sign on.
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Entity categories
Support trusted, global research and scholarly collaboration by adopting standard practices and specifications defined with entity categories.
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Implement Federation best practices
Help the InCommon Federation help you get the most out of being InCommon. Learn and adopt Federation best practices.
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SAML and other technical references
Want to learn how things work under the hood? Check out the InCommon Federation technical references
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Deploy software
Get federation-optimized, packaged, and free identity and access management software: InCommon Trusted Access Platform
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Ask the community
Find answers, support, and inspiration from US and international federated identity management community members.
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InCommon policies and practices
Participant agreements, practices and policies; privacy statements; terms and conditions. Find them on the InCommon website.
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