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 here. (May 9, 2020) InCommon updates Discovery Service (April 27, 2020) 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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