A Process for Managing Assignment of Open R&S IdP Tags to Candidate IdPs

The Challenges

• We have a vetted list of requirements that an IdP would have to meet in order to serve the need for an Open R&S Identity (ORSID) Provider.
• We want to define a standard process by which federations can assess candidate ORSID providers and tag the approved ORSIDs.
• We want to assure the long-term stability of identifiers issued by ORSID providers.
• We want to assure that a person always has the option to migrate from one ORSID provider to another.
• We want to allow individuals to carry the same identifier even if they move from one ORSID provider to another.
• We want to assure that ORSID services are continuously available as long as they are filling a need for the Research and Scholarship community.

The Plan

• InCommon to collaborate with the UK Access Management Federation in defining a process for managing the evaluation and tagging of candidate ORSIDs.
• InCommon and the UK federation will tag at least one ORSID as soon as feasible and assure that it operates for a minimum of two years
• The InCommon and UK federations will seek to designate additional IdPs as ORSIDs with the goal of having at least two production ORSID providers in operation at any one time
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