R&S Entity Category: Collaboration Made Easy

CANARIE continues to invest in evaluating, adopting and promoting technologies and standards to deliver enhanced federated identity solutions to community members. A growth area for federated identity is supporting... [ view full abstract ]

CANARIE continues to invest in evaluating, adopting and promoting technologies and standards to deliver enhanced federated identity solutions to community members. A growth area for federated identity is supporting collaboration among researchers for project work, which can involve researchers from multiple institutions sharing applications, data and documents online, using tools offered by one or more service providers. Service providers (SPs) are interested in making it easy for users to access their service without requiring heavy integration between the schools and themselves. SPs don’t want to force users to create and maintain accounts in order to access their service if federated sign-on is available. Likewise, students are looking for seamless access to such services using their home institution’s user identity and credentials. 

The Research and Scholarship (R&S) Entity Category defined by REFEDS (the Research and Education FEDerations group) is designed to solve this problem.

This presentation introduces the value proposition for adopting the R&S Entity Category within the Canadian Access Federation. It also highlights the requirements and business processes for adoption, and offers recommendations on ensuring that current attribute policies align with your institution’s privacy policy.