Research & Scholarship Attribute Bundle
Identity providers are encouraged to release the R&S attribute bundle to all R&S service providers:
- Identifiers
eduPersonPrincipalNameeduPersonTargetedID
- Mail attribute
mail
- Person name attributes
displayNamegivenNamesn(surname)
- Authorization attribute
eduPersonScopedAffiliation
Supporting the Research & Scholarship Category
An identity provider (IdP) supports the Research & Scholarship (R&S) Category if, for some subset of the IdP's user population, the IdP releases a minimal subset of the R&S attribute bundle to R&S service providers without administrative involvement, either automatically or subject to user consent.
Minimal Subset of the R&S Attribute Bundle
The following attributes constitute a minimal subset of the R&S attribute bundle:
eduPersonPrincipalNamemaildisplayNameOR (givenNameANDsn)
For the purposes of access control, a non-reassigned persistent identifier is REQUIRED. If your deployment of eduPersonPrincipalName is non-reassigned, it will suffice. Otherwise you MUST release eduPersonTargetedID (which is non-reassigned by definition) in addition to eduPersonPrincipalName. In any case, release of both identifiers is RECOMMENDED.
An Optimization
If a service provider lists any of the person name attributes in metadata, the identity provider MUST release some form of person name, either displayName or givenName + sn. Beyond that, an identity provider is NOT REQUIRED to release any attribute not listed in metadata.