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- The service enhances the research and scholarship activities of some subset of the InCommon community.
- The service requests a subset of R&S Category Attributes and requests only those attributes it absolutely needs. (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, as specified for the R&S Category in the following list:
- 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 submitted to InCommon and published in a human-readable format on the InCommon public web site.
- The SP provides an
mdui:DisplayName, one of numerous the User Interface Elements in metadata. Provision of all user interface elements is highly recommended. - The SP provides appropriate contacts in the metadata. In addition to the Technical and Administrative contacts that are required of all SPs, a Security contact must also be provided.
- The SP provides requested attributes in metadata.
- The SP intelligently handles errors involving the release of requested attributes.
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