# TAU SAML Identity in the IUCC Identity Federation

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/tel-aviv-university/iucc-identity-federation/  
**Provider:** Tel Aviv University — https://apis.io/providers/tel-aviv-university/  
**Base URL:** https://iif-ng.iucc.ac.il/sp/saml2/idp/metadata.php  
**Documentation:** https://technical.edugain.org/entities

TAU SAML Identity in the IUCC Identity Federation is one of 5 APIs that [Tel Aviv University](https://apis.io/providers/tel-aviv-university/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, eduGAIN, and IUCC. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Tel Aviv University federates through the IUCC Identity Federation (IUCCIF), the Israeli national federation operated by the Inter-University Computation Center, an eduGAIN member since 2014-07-07 and in production since 2014-11-25. Checked against the eduGAIN entity database on 2026-08-30: TAU publishes NO eduGAIN-registered identity provider of its own. Its identity appears instead as a shibMD:Scope value — tau.ac.il — on IUCC's proxy identity provider, entityID https://iif-ng.iucc.ac.il/sp/saml2/idp/metadata.php (SIRTFI asserted, first seen 2019-06-02), alongside biu.ac.il, haifa.ac.il, huji.ac.il, technion.ac.il and weizmann.ac.il. The SAML 2.0 metadata document is live, public and machine-readable, and the operator is IUCC, not TAU. idp.tau.ac.il resolves to a campus address but refuses connections on both 80 and 443 from the public internet.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://iif.iucc.ac.il
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tel-aviv-university/refs/heads/main/conformance/tel-aviv-university-conformance.yml

## Other Tel Aviv University APIs (4)

- [TAU Libraries Alma OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting](https://apis.io/apis/tel-aviv-university/alma-oai-pmh/)
- [TAU Libraries Alma SRU Search](https://apis.io/apis/tel-aviv-university/alma-sru/)
- [TAU Research Portal (Elsevier Pure) OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/tel-aviv-university/cris-oai-pmh/)
- [TAU Libraries Primo VE Discovery (DaTA Search)](https://apis.io/apis/tel-aviv-university/primo-discovery/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, eduGAIN, IUCC, Single Sign-On

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