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You can reconfigure your IdP whenever you’re ready. Today there are no global R&S SPs in InCommon metadata but soon there will be. If you are certain you want to support global R&S, then by all means reconfigure your IdP now.
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If I
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reconfigure my
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IdP to recognize the refeds.org R&S tag, will my IdP start releasing attributes to SPs outside
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InCommon
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At this moment, all the entities in the InCommon metadata aggregate are registered by InCommon, so the only R&S SPs in the aggregate are InCommon R&S SPs. Within the next few months, however, InCommon will begin importing R&S SPs from other federations via eduGAIN. When that happens, if your IdP recognizes the refeds.org R&S entity attribute value, it will automatically release attributes to all R&S SPs, including R&S SPs from other federations. That’s precisely what it means to support global R&S.
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