InCommon makes possible trustworthy academic collaboration that reaches far beyond what a single organization can do on its own, through identity and access management technologies and services that are integrated across the globe.


The InCommon Federation delivers trusted, seamless, scalable single sign-on and access management for research collaborations and cloud resources in the U.S. and around the globe.

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Support Research & Scholarship (R&S)

Do your part to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic: configure your identity provider to support the REFEDS Research and Scholarship category to rapidly connect your researchers and scientists with international collaborations

Happenings

Federation Manager 5.0 is coming

May 1, 2020 - A new version of Federation Manger with vastly improved metadata editing is coming in May. Check out what's new.

InCommon updates Discovery Service

April 27, 2020 - The InCommon Discovery Service is getting an update! In addition to a new look, the updated service lists identity providers from international federations as well as InCommon's IDPs. What's new?

InCommon to adopt remote metadata signing (April 1, 2020)

COVID-19 call to action - We need your help (March 26, 2020)

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Manage metadata with the Federation Manager

Use the Federation Manager to upload, edit, and publish your metadata to the InCommon Federation.

Using metadata

Find and retrieve metadata for identity providers and service providers in InCommon and R&E federations around the world.

Handling errors in federated SSO

Create a seamless federated SSO experience for your users. Manage those federated errors with care.

Working with the discovery service

Configure the discovery service to help your users easily find their home organizations during federated single sign on.

Entity categories

Support trusted, global research and scholarly collaboration by adopting standard practices and specifications defined with entity categories.

 


Implement Federation best practices

Help the InCommon Federation help you get the most out of being InCommon. Learn and adopt Federation best practices.


SAML and other technical references

Want to learn how things work under the hood? Check out the InCommon Federation technical references


Deploy software

Get federation-optimized, packaged, and free identity and access management software: InCommon Trusted Access Platform


Ask the community

Find answers, support, and inspiration from US and international federated identity management community members.


InCommon policies and practices

Participant agreements, practices and policies; privacy statements; terms and conditions. Find them on the InCommon website.



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