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Report on Phase I

As of February 23March 2, 2015, all but two (2) R&S SPs meet the requirements of REFEDS R&S; that is, 31 of 33 R&S SPs have a multivalued R&S entity attribute in metadata:

<mdattr:EntityAttributes xmlns:mdattr="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:metadata:attribute">
  <!-- multivalued entity attribute for R&amp;S SPs -->
  <saml:Attribute
      xmlns:saml="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:assertion"
      NameFormat="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:uri"
      Name="http://macedir.org/entity-category">
    <saml:AttributeValue>
      http://id.incommon.org/category/research-and-scholarship
    </saml:AttributeValue>
    <saml:AttributeValue>
      http://refeds.org/category/research-and-scholarship
    </saml:AttributeValue>
  </saml:Attribute>
</mdattr:EntityAttributes>

The following One of the two remaining R&S SPs are at risk of not making the transition to REFEDS R&S:

1. GPN/UM Dropoff Services

2. Narada Metrics

We will continue to encourage the owners of the above SPs to make the transition to (Narada Metrics) has applied for REFEDS R&S in a timely fashion but we need to move forward. It is recommended that the Federation begin migrating R&S IdPs in early March.

Messaging to R&S SPs

AFAIK, there are little more than a handful of R&S SPs that filter metadata based on the R&S entity attribute but in any case those SPs will be advised as follows:

If you filter metadata based on the R&S entity attribute, you should know that R&S IdPs will begin migrating from InCommon R&S to REFEDS R&S in March 2015. This means that some IdPs will have the legacy InCommon R&S entity attribute value in metadata:

http://id.incommon.org/category/research-and-scholarship

while other IdPs will have the REFEDS R&S entity attribute value in metadata:

http://refeds.org/category/research-and-scholarship

We expect the migration to take a very long time so you are advised to filter metadata on both R&S entity attribute values if you filter metadata at all.

A more interesting question remains:

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. The other R&S SP (GPN/UM Dropoff Services) is non-responsive.

Outline of Phase II

Basic message: If you are an IdP operator that supports R&S, migrate to REFEDS R&S now! (reference needed)

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