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Terminology

• An Entity Category is a group of entities (SPs or IdPs or both) possessing a particular characteristic.
• Membership in an Entity Category is indicated by an Entity Attribute in metadata an Entity Attribute with @Name http://macedir.org/entity-category and @NameFormat urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:uri.
• An Entity Attribute is a SAML Attribute in a container of type mdattr:EntityAttributeType defined by an Entity Attribute Profile of SAML Metadata.
• An Entity Attribute Profile of SAML Metadata describes how SAML Attributes and Assertions can may be added to SAML metadata extensions.
• An Entity Category Profile of SAML Entity Attributes describes a specific Entity Attribute for categorizing entities according to some Entity Attribute Profile of SAML Metadata.

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1. REFEDS Research & Scholarship Entity Category
2. REFEDS Hide From Discovery Entity Category

Two Entity Category Profiles in the InCommon Federation are:

1. Registered By InCommon Category
2. InCommon Research & Scholarship Support Category

See the child pages to this wiki page for local documentation on each of these entity categories.

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• The SAML V2.0 Metadata Extension for Entity Attributes is a standards-based Entity Attribute Profile of SAML Metadata.
• The Entity Category Profile of SAML Entity AttributesMetadata Attribute Type (draft-macedir-entity-attribute-00.xml)