DRAFT - Research and Scholarship Category Pilot

Wiki MarkupInCommon is launching a new service to make it easier for participants to provide collaborative services and for faculty, researchers, and scientists \[students?\] to use those services with their federated identities. This service uses categorization of service providers (SPs) to simplify and streamline configuration of identity providers (IdPs) and SPs to work together. The newly defined Research & Scholarship launching an easier method for participants to provide collaborative services for researchers and scholars via their federated identities. This method categorizes service providers (SPs) to simplify and streamline configuration of identity providers (IdPs) and SPs to work together. The newly defined Research & Scholarship (R&S) category will apply to service providers that support research and scholarly activities such as virtual organizations and campus-based collaboration services. Participating IdPs will agree to release a minimal set of attributes to the R&S category with a one-time addition to their default release policies, a simpler and more scalable approach than negotiating such release bilaterally with every service provider.

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• The service enhances the research and scholarship activities of some subset of the InCommon community.
• The service requires a subset of R&S Category Attributes. (See below.)
• The service does not require out-of-band negotiation and/or contracts with IdPs.
• The service conforms to a specific subset of the Recommended Practices published by InCommon.
  • The SP is a production SAML deployment.
  • The SP supports SAML V2.0 Web Browser SSO.
  • The SP refreshes and verifies metadata at least daily.
  • The SP's metadata has been provided to InCommon so that it can be published in a human-readable format on the InCommon public web site.
  • The SP provides appropriate contacts in the metadata.
  • The SP provides its requested attributes in metadata.  (Note that requests for attributes outside of the R&S set will likely require prior agreement with IdP Operators.)
  • The SP intelligently handles errors involving the release of requested attributes.

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