# RENATER Fédération Éducation-Recherche entity (ENS de Lyon IdP)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/ens-lyon/renater-fer-entity/  
**Provider:** École Normale Supérieure de Lyon — https://apis.io/providers/ens-lyon/  
**Base URL:** https://mdq.federation.renater.fr/fer/entities/https%3A%2F%2Fidp.ens-lyon.fr%2Fidp%2Fshibboleth  
**Documentation:** https://services.renater.fr/federation/

RENATER Fédération Éducation-Recherche entity (ENS de Lyon IdP) is one of 8 APIs that [École Normale Supérieure de Lyon](https://apis.io/providers/ens-lyon/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, eduGAIN, RENATER, and Metadata. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and authentication docs.

ENS de Lyon's Identity Provider as registered by RENATER, France's national research and education network, in the Fédération Éducation-Recherche and exported to eduGAIN. The per-entity MDQ endpoint returns the signed EntityDescriptor (registrationAuthority https://federation.renater.fr/, OrganizationName "Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon", mdui:DisplayName "ENS de Lyon" in fr and en, REFEDS Research & Scholarship entity category). The MDQ service requires an Accept header of application/samlmetadata+xml. The federation is shared by definition; the IdP behind this entry is ENS de Lyon's own.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://services.renater.fr/federation/
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ens-lyon/refs/heads/main/authentication/ens-lyon-authentication.yml
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ens-lyon/refs/heads/main/conformance/ens-lyon-domain-standards.yml

## Other École Normale Supérieure de Lyon APIs (7)

- [ENS de Lyon Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)](https://apis.io/apis/ens-lyon/shibboleth-idp/)
- [ENS de Lyon Microsoft Entra ID tenant (OIDC + SAML metadata)](https://apis.io/apis/ens-lyon/entra-id-tenant/)
- [ENS de Lyon CAS single sign-on (Apereo CAS 3.0 protocol)](https://apis.io/apis/ens-lyon/cas-sso/)
- [HAL OAI-PMH — ens-lyon collection](https://apis.io/apis/ens-lyon/hal-oai-pmh/)
- [HAL Search API — ens-lyon collection](https://apis.io/apis/ens-lyon/hal-search/)
- [ROR registry record (04zmssz18)](https://apis.io/apis/ens-lyon/ror-record/)
- [Crossref Funder Registry entry (501100018692)](https://apis.io/apis/ens-lyon/crossref-funder/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, SAML, eduGAIN, RENATER, Metadata

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/ens-lyon/renater-fer-entity/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/ens-lyon/.