To support the Research and Scholarship Category, an IdP releases the R&S attribute bundle to all R&S SPs, including R&S SPs in other federations. See below for detailed configuration instructions.
Software Requirements
To release attributes to all current and future R&S SPs with a one-time configuration, an IdP leverages entity attributes (instead of entity IDs). Thus the configuration steps documented here require Shibboleth IdP v2.3.4 or later, which fully supports using entity attributes in SP metadata as part of an attribute release filter policy.
No other SAML IdP software is known to support entity attributes at this time.
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Configure an IdP to Release R&S Attributes Globally
Configure a Shibboleth IdP to release the R&S Attribute Bundle to all R&S SPs, including R&S SPs in other federations, as follows:
<afp:AttributeFilterPolicy id="releaseRandSAttributeBundle"> <!-- for Shib IdP V3, use type saml:EntityAttributeExactMatch instead --> <afp:PolicyRequirementRule xsi:type="saml:AttributeRequesterEntityAttributeExactMatch" attributeName="http://macedir.org/entity-category" attributeValue="http://refeds.org/category/research-and-scholarship"/> <!-- a fixed subset of the Research & Scholarship Attribute Bundle --> <afp:AttributeRule attributeID="eduPersonPrincipalName"> <afp:PermitValueRule xsi:type="basic:ANY"/> </afp:AttributeRule> <!-- if your deployment of ePPN is non-reassigned, release of ePTID is OPTIONAL --> <afp:AttributeRule attributeID="eduPersonTargetedID"> <afp:PermitValueRule xsi:type="basic:ANY"/> </afp:AttributeRule> <afp:AttributeRule attributeID="email"> <afp:PermitValueRule xsi:type="basic:ANY"/> </afp:AttributeRule> <!-- either displayName or (givenName and sn) is REQUIRED but all three are RECOMMENDED --> <afp:AttributeRule attributeID="displayName"> <afp:PermitValueRule xsi:type="basic:ANY"/> </afp:AttributeRule> <afp:AttributeRule attributeID="givenName"> <afp:PermitValueRule xsi:type="basic:ANY"/> </afp:AttributeRule> <afp:AttributeRule attributeID="surname"> <afp:PermitValueRule xsi:type="basic:ANY"/> </afp:AttributeRule> <!-- release of ePSA is OPTIONAL --> <afp:AttributeRule attributeID="eduPersonScopedAffiliation"> <afp:PermitValueRule xsi:type="basic:ANY"/> </afp:AttributeRule> </afp:AttributeFilterPolicy>