Does your Identity Provider support the Research & Scholarship Category of services in the InCommon Federation? If so, read on to find out how to Migrate to Global Research & Scholarship. If your Identity Provider does not yet support the Research & Scholarship category, the following section will show you how.
Support Research & Scholarship
An IdP that supports the Research & Scholarship (R&S) category automatically releases the R&S Attribute Bundle to R&S SPs, that is, SPs tagged with the R&S entity attribute. These SPs have been vetted by InCommon to meet the requirements of R&S.
To support the R&S category, an IdP operator has at least two configuration options:
Release the R&S attribute bundle to all R&S SPs, including R&S SPs in other federations
Release the R&S attribute bundle to R&S SPs registered by InCommon only
All that’s required is a one-time change to your IdP’s attribute release policy. For more info about R&S, visit our wiki: Research and Scholarship for IdPs
Migrate to Global Research & Scholarship
Today more than 100 InCommon IdPs support the Research & Scholarship (R&S) category. If your IdP supports R&S, we invite you to migrate to global R&S, that is, release attributes to all R&S SPs, including R&S SPs in other federations.
To migrate an existing R&S IdP to global R&S, the IdP operator makes a small, one-time change to their IdP configuration to recognize the refeds.org R&S entity attribute value. Since all R&S SPs (in all federations) meet the requirements of the REFEDS R&S Entity Category specification, an IdP configured to recognize the refeds.org R&S tag will release attributes to all R&S SPs, including R&S SPs in other federations.
NOTE: If you are unable to support global R&S at this time, we strongly encourage you to migrate away from the legacy incommon.org R&S entity attribute value, the use of which is deprecated. Eventually this entity attribute value will be removed from SP metadata. See the wiki topic linked below for more information.
For more info about global R&S, visit our wiki: Migrating an IdP to Global Research and Scholarship