InCommon Federation
This site hosts community resources and technical information to help with deploying, maintaining, and enhancing your participation in the InCommon Federation. Here you will find information about:
- Entity Categories to indicate certifications and other properties of IdPs and SPs that are registered within the federation
- The Federation Manager, used to manage the information you provide to the federation about your IdPs and SPs
- Federation Services, both those used internally and those available for your use
- Federation Technical Guide to help you prepare your IdPs and SPs for use within the federation
- InCommon Federation Initiatives
- Metadata Administration for Site Administrators
- Recommended Practices
- Resources for Service Providers
- SAML, the Security Assertion Markup Language used within InCommon
- Security Incident Handling, information from InCommon’s Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT)