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Identity Integration Resources
Understanding: What makes federated access in R&E community unique/different from typical commercial scenarios?
- identity life cycle management in R&E community
- cross-organization collaborations / shared services
- Trusted Relationships for Access Management: The InCommon Model
- Onboarding materials:
- Other materials in the global R&E identity community:
Reference and How-to: What do I need to do technically/operationally?
- Support user data exchange using “InCommon standards”
- Working with User Data
- Deployment Guidance for REFEDS * Access Entity Categories for InCommon Federation Participants
- eduPerson
- SAML Subject Identifiers Profile
- Support SAML 2 and related federation interoperability deployment profiles
InCommon’s guidance on adopting Kantara SAML Deployment Profile
The Federation’s focus is for service deployers in federation to meet Deployment Profile guidance. The implementation Profile helps a tool maker to build tools that allows the customer to meet Deployment Profile requirements, although InCommon Federation does not have direct statements regarding the Kantara Implementation Profile.
- Working with SAML metadata
- Support REFEDS profiles (i.e., so that customers can support these profiles) – this is a partial, priority list.
- Baseline Expectations – platform/tool needs to allow customer to meet InCommon Baseline Expectations requirements