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6. Attribute Release

An Identity Provider supports the R&S category if, for some subset of the Identity Provider’s user population, the Identity Provider is willing and able to release the R&S attribute bundle to all R&S Service Providers without administrative involvement, either automatically or subject to user consent. The R&S attribute bundle consists of the following attributes:

An Identity Provider that supports the R&S category MUST be willing and able to release all R&S attributes to all R&S Service Providers. The only exception is the eduPersonUniqueId attribute: If the Identity Provider’s deployment of eduPersonPrincipalName is non-reassigned, release of eduPersonUniqueId is strictly OPTIONAL.

In practice, an Identity Provider MUST release an R&S attribute upon request, in one of two ways:

  1. By unconditionally releasing that attribute to all R&S SPs
  2. By conditionally releasing that attribute based on the <md:RequestedAttribute> elements in Service Provider metadata

As suggested above, a sufficiently capable IdP deployment MAY optimize attribute release based on the <md:RequestedAttribute> elements in Service Provider metadata.

Beyond the two special cases noted above, an Identity Provider is NOT REQUIRED to release any R&S attribute not listed in metadata. Moreover, any non-R&S attribute listed in Service Provider metadata is out of scope with respect to this specification.

An Identity Provider MUST NOT require the isRequired XML attribute to be present on any given requested R&S attribute in Service Provider metadata. That is, an Identity Provider that supports the R&S category MUST be able meet the requirements of this specification regardless of whether the isRequired XML attribute is (or is not) present on any given requested R&S attribute in Service Provider metadata.

 


 

6. Attribute Release

Identity Providers are strongly encouraged to release the following bundle of attributes to R&S category Service Providers:

Where email address refers to the mail attribute and person name refers to displayName and optionally givenName and sn (i.e., surname).

An Identity Provider supports the R&S Category if, for some subset of the Identity Provider’s user population, the Identity Provider releases a minimal subset of the R&S attribute bundle to R&S Service Providers without administrative involvement, either automatically or subject to user consent. The following attributes constitute a minimal subset of the R&S attribute bundle:

For the purposes of access control, a non-reassigned persistent identifier is required. If your deployment of eduPersonPrincipalName is non-reassigned, it will suffice. Otherwise you MUST release eduPersonTargetedID (which is non-reassigned by definition) in addition to eduPersonPrincipalName. In any case, release of both identifiers is RECOMMENDED.