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Migrating to the Global R&S Category
This section is for existing R&S IdPs that want to support global Research & Scholarship by releasing attributes to all R&S SPs, including R&S SPs in other federations.
Supporting the REFEDS R&S Entity Category
To support R&S globally, an existing R&S IdP follows this simple 3-step process:
- Review the authoritative REFEDS Research & Scholarship Entity Category specification
- The requirements for an R&S IdP have not changed
- The requirements for an R&S SP have changed slightly (a gap analysis has been prepared for your convenience)
- Configure your IdP to release attributes to all R&S SPs globally (see next section)
- Declare your IdP's ability to support global R&S by submitting a short form
Configuring an IdP to Release Attributes Globally
Most of the Research & Scholarship (R&S) IdPs in the InCommon Federation are configured with a policy rule that releases attributes to R&S SPs tagged with the legacy incommon.org R&S entity attribute value:
<afp:PolicyRequirementRule xsi:type="saml:AttributeRequesterEntityAttributeExactMatch" attributeName="http://macedir.org/entity-category" attributeValue="http://id.incommon.org/category/research-and-scholarship"/>
To support R&S globally, an R&S IdP should instead be configured with a policy that releases the R&S Attribute Bundle to all R&S SPs, including R&S SPs in other federations:
<afp:PolicyRequirementRule xsi:type="saml:AttributeRequesterEntityAttributeExactMatch" attributeName="http://macedir.org/entity-category" attributeValue="http://refeds.org/category/research-and-scholarship"/> <!-- for Shib IdP V3, use type saml:EntityAttributeExactMatch instead -->
For more detailed information about configuring an IdP for R&S, consult the R&S Attribute Bundle Config topic.
To facilitate the migration process suggested by the previous configurations, all R&S SPs registered by InCommon now have a multivalued R&S entity attribute in metadata.
Important! For both SPs and IdPs, only the refeds.org R&S entity attribute value is exported to eduGAIN:
Exporting the R&S entity attribute
The legacy incommon.org R&S entity attribute value
http://id.incommon.org/category/research-and-scholarship
is not exported to eduGAIN. Only the refeds.org R&S entity attribute value
http://refeds.org/category/research-and-scholarship
is exported to eduGAIN!
See the R&S Entity Metadata topic for details about entity attributes in metadata.
Maintaining Existing Attribute Release Policy
This section is for existing R&S IdPs that want to continue to release attributes to R&S SPs registered by InCommon.
Configuring an IdP to Release Attributes Locally
TBD