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The goal of Entity Categories is to allow Identity Providers to release their attributes more easily to a group of Service Providers, instead of each individual Service Provider. In the latter case, the Identity Provider has to review each Service Provider separately, which costs a lot of time. With Entity Categories, the Identity Provider automatically releases attributes to the entire group at once.

Currently, these are the following most popular Entity Categories are used within eduGAIN:

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• personal identifiers: email address, person name (i.e. displayName or a combination of givenName AND sn), eduPersonPrincipalName.
• pseudonymous identifier: eduPersonTargetedID.
• affiliation: eduPersonScopedAffiliation.

SURFconext must review your application to this entity category. If you would like to join this category, please contact support@surfconext.nl.

Code of Conduct

As a Service Provider, to declare you have signed the Code of Conduct, you can include the Code of Conduct Entity Category in your metadata.  Note: SURFconext will do this for youPlease follow the link above to see what changes you must make to your metadata.

Hide from Discovery

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Within SURFconext, test entities are part of another (test) federation. SURFconext doesn't publish any test entities into eduGAIN, so it is very unlikely an Identity Provider in SURFconext should become part of this entity category. If for whatever reason you would like to become part of this entity category, please look at the URL above to see what changes you must make to your metadata.

How to support Entity Categories

Sirtfi

Entity is compliant with the Security Incident Response Trust Framework for Federated Identity. See Sirtfi and SURFconextPlease contact support@surfconext.nl if you want to become part of either of the above entity categories (except: hide from discovery).