Research & Scholarship Attribute Bundle
Identity providers are encouraged to release the R&S attribute bundle to all R&S service providers:
- Identifiers
eduPersonPrincipalName
eduPersonTargetedID
- Mail attribute
mail
- Person name attributes
displayName
givenName
sn
(surname)
- Authorization attribute
eduPersonScopedAffiliation
It is easy to configure a Shibboleth IdP to release the R&S attribute bundle to all R&S SPs. If, however, you are using SAML software that does not support entity attributes, consider releasing the Essential Attribute Bundle to all SPs instead.
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:
eduPersonPrincipalName
mail
displayName
OR (givenName
ANDsn
)
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.