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All that’s required is a one-time change to your IdP’s attribute release policy. For more info about R&S, visit our wiki: Research and Scholarship for IdPs

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titleR&S is for ALL users!
The R&S category benefits all organizations, even those organizations whose primary mission is not research. The R&S category includes generally useful collaborative services (such as wikis and file sharing services) that benefit all users, including students, faculty, and staff at small colleges and universities.

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To migrate an existing R&S IdP to global R&S, the IdP operator makes a small, one-time change to their IdP configuration to recognize the refeds.org R&S entity attribute value. Since all R&S SPs (in all federations) meet the requirements of the REFEDS R&S Entity Category specification, an IdP configured to recognize the refeds.org R&S tag will release attributes to all R&S SPs, including R&S SPs in other federations.

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titleAn IdP configuration SHOULD NOT rely on the incommon.org R&S tag
If you are unable to support global R&S at this time, we strongly encourage you to migrate away from the legacy incommon.org R&S entity attribute value, the use of which is deprecated. Eventually this entity attribute value will be removed from SP metadata. See the wiki topic linked below for more information.

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