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InCommon is launching an easier method for participants to provide collaborative services for researchers and scholars via their federated identities by reducing the policy interpretation, inter-institutional agreements, and system configuration needed for those services. This method categorizes service providers (SPs) to simplify the configuration of identity providers (IdPs); the result is that researchers can successfully access SP sites without delay and without contacting their local IDP IdP admin. 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 meets the following technical requirements:
- The SP is a production SAML deployment.
- The SP's Service metadata has been submitted to InCommon and published in a human-readable format on the InCommon public web site.
- The SP is a production SAML deployment that supports SAML V2.0 Web Browser SSO.
- The SP refreshes and verifies metadata at least daily.
- The SP provides an
mdui:DisplayNamein metadata (one of numerous User Interface Elements). - The SP supports the SAML V2.0 HTTP-POST binding (one of numerous SAML V2.0 endpoints in metadata)
- The SP provides Technical and Administrative contacts in metadata.
- The SP provides requested attributes in metadata.
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