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The Challenges

• We have The REFEDs IOLR WG has developed a vetted list of requirements that an IdP would have to meet in order to serve the need for an Open R&S Identity (ORSID) Provider.Un-Affiliated IdP
• The WG wants We want to define a standard process by which federations can assess candidate ORSID providers Un-Affiliated IdP providers and tag the approved ORSIDs Un-Affiliated IdPs.
• We want The WG wants to assure the long-term stability of identifiers issued by ORSID providers. Un-Affiliated IdP providers.
• The WG wants to We want to assure that a person always has the option to migrate from one ORSID provider to another.
• We want to allow individuals to carry the same identifier even if they move from one ORSID provider to another.
• Un-Affiliated IdP to another.
• The WG wants to assure that Un-Affiliated IdP services We want to assure that ORSID services are continuously available as long as they are filling a need for the Research and Scholarship community.

The Questions, Some Answers

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An Approach for Discussion

• The REFEDS IOLR Working Group will draft and seek community evaluation of a REFEDS-level Un-Affiliated IdP entity category
• The entity category tag will be defined as self-asserted
• People should be encouraged to establish accounts with more than one self-declared Un-Affiliated IdP
• The trustworthiness of self-asserted Un-Affiliated IdP tags should be addressed by the community of Refeds R&S relying parties in dialogue with Un-Affiliated IdP operators

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The Plan

• InCommon and the UK Access Management Federation will collaborate to define a process for evaluating and tagging candidate ORSIDs.
• InCommon and the UK federation will tag at least one ORSID as soon as feasible and assure that it operates for a minimum of two years.
• The InCommon and UK federations will seek to designate additional IdPs as ORSIDs with the goal of having at least two production ORSID providers in operation at any one time.
• REFEDS will create a working group to feed the knowledge gained during the InCommon/UK Access Management Federation into, and to draft and finalize a REFEDS-level ORSID entity category
  • KeithH Note: Tom Barton suggested in an email of Oct. 19 in the thread "Re: [TAC-InC] Draft TAC Minutes - 7-October-2015" that we might be wise to get a two-federation agreement on process and have a successful trial before approaching Refeds.  For further discussion.
• eduGAIN will adopt the entity category and require member federations to abide by its terms
  • KeithH Note: That may be more responsibility than the eduGAIN organization wants to take on. For further discussion.
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