InCommon has approved the first three service providers for the Research & Scholarship (R&S) category: CILogon, the Prototype GENI Identity Portal, and the UW-Milwaukee CGCA Wiki. Service providers eligible for the R&S category include those that support research and scholarly activities such as virtual organizations and campus-based collaboration services.

Participating identity providers (IdPs) agree to release a minimal set of attributes to the R&S category (name, email address, user identifier, and affiliation). This can be done with a one-time modification to the IdP’s default attribute release policy, which applies to the entire R&S category. This provides a simpler and more scalable approach for IdPs than negotiating attribute release individually with every service provider.

The first three R&S services are:

See the InCommon wiki for complete information about the R&S Category.