Australian National University

ANU Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)

ANU's institutional identity provider, publishing machine-readable SAML 2.0 metadata at a stable URL. entityID https://idp2.anu.edu.au/idp/shibboleth, shibmd:Scope anu.edu.au, OrganizationDisplayName "Australian National University", with SSO endpoints for HTTP-POST, HTTP-Redirect and SOAP/ECP bindings plus a SOAP artifact resolution service and an attribute authority. Registered in the Australian Access Federation aggregate (359 entities) alongside two ANU service providers, wattlecourses.anu.edu.au and mdl-stage.anu.edu.au, and interfederated internationally through eduGAIN. This is institution-operated by definition and is the most consequential machine-readable surface ANU runs — it is also the class of surface that is almost never catalogued.

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Examples
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/anu/refs/heads/main/examples/anu-idp-saml-entity-descriptor-example.xml
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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/anu/refs/heads/main/conformance/anu-conformance.yml
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Federation
https://md.aaf.edu.au/aaf-metadata.xml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: anu:identity-federation
name: ANU Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)
description: ANU's institutional identity provider, publishing machine-readable SAML 2.0 metadata at a
  stable URL. entityID https://idp2.anu.edu.au/idp/shibboleth, shibmd:Scope anu.edu.au, OrganizationDisplayName
  "Australian National University", with SSO endpoints for HTTP-POST, HTTP-Redirect and SOAP/ECP bindings
  plus a SOAP artifact resolution service and an attribute authority. Registered in the Australian Access
  Federation aggregate (359 entities) alongside two ANU service providers, wattlecourses.anu.edu.au and
  mdl-stage.anu.edu.au, and interfederated internationally through eduGAIN. This is institution-operated
  by definition and is the most consequential machine-readable surface ANU runs — it is also the class
  of surface that is almost never catalogued.
humanURL: https://services.anu.edu.au/information-technology
baseURL: https://idp2.anu.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- AAF
- eduGAIN
- Single Sign-On
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: Metadata is served from an anu.edu.au host and self-asserts ANU as the organization.
  Present in the AAF federation aggregate under ANU's own entityID.
x-developer-usable: false
x-developer-note: An end-user login federation, not a developer authorization surface. There is no client
  registration path, no token endpoint and no consent screen an outside developer could integrate against.
properties:
- type: Examples
  url: examples/anu-idp-saml-entity-descriptor-example.xml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/anu-conformance.yml
- type: Federation
  url: https://md.aaf.edu.au/aaf-metadata.xml