Rice University

InCommon Federation registration

Rice's identity provider is registered in InCommon, the US research and education identity federation, and InCommon's metadata query service returns a signed EntityDescriptor for entityID https://idp.rice.edu/idp/shibboleth with registrationAuthority https://incommon.org. A federation is shared by definition; the entity inside it is Rice's, and this membership is what makes Rice's IdP usable by every other InCommon participant. Recorded as a relationship, never as Rice's contract.

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https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/%7Bsha1%7D6353fefaff3eca405b039ff0391042ae469fc046

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IdentityFederation
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rice/refs/heads/main/identity-federation/rice-identity-federation.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: rice:incommon-federation
name: InCommon Federation registration
x-operator: federation
description: Rice's identity provider is registered in InCommon, the US research and education identity
  federation, and InCommon's metadata query service returns a signed EntityDescriptor for entityID https://idp.rice.edu/idp/shibboleth
  with registrationAuthority https://incommon.org. A federation is shared by definition; the entity inside
  it is Rice's, and this membership is what makes Rice's IdP usable by every other InCommon participant.
  Recorded as a relationship, never as Rice's contract.
humanURL: https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/spaces/federation/overview
baseURL: https://mdq.incommon.org/
tags:
- Identity Federation
- InCommon
- SAML
- Metadata
- Higher Education
properties:
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: identity-federation/rice-identity-federation.yml
- type: Documentation
  url: https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/%7Bsha1%7D6353fefaff3eca405b039ff0391042ae469fc046