Candidates for the R&S category include Service Providers that support research and scholarship as an essential component. For example, a service providing tools for both multi-institutional research collaboration and instruction is eligible as a candidate for the R&S category.
InCommon reviews all applications from potential R&S Service Providers. The InCommon Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and the InCommon Steering Committee also review and approve the requests. Visit the Federation Info pages for a complete list of all R&S SPs.
InCommon highly recommends that SPs use a minimalist approach to attributes, only requesting those attributes that they absolutely need. IdPs are encouraged to implement a default policy that releases the R&S attributes to SPs in the R&S category. This requires a one-time change to the IdP's deployment configuration. If you are interested, we've provided more-detailed implementation guidance for IdPs on this wiki.
InCommon IdPs are strongly encouraged to release one or more of the following attributes to R&S category SPs:
See the R&S Category Attributes section of the main R&S page for more details.
We do not believe so. We have worked with university counsels, registrars, and associate provosts to review these and found no issues to date. We have summarized our belief on the wiki. We encourage campuses to reach out and talk to someone that has implemented R&S for further information.
There is detailed information on the Research and Scholarship Category elsewhere in this wiki.