University of Washington

UW Shibboleth Identity Provider (InCommon)

UW's Shibboleth identity provider publishes signed SAML 2.0 metadata at a stable URL — entityID urn:mace:incommon:washington.edu, scope washington.edu, InCommon registration ID INC20180221T195121. Machine-readable, unauthenticated, institution-operated by definition, and one of the very few open programmable surfaces most universities have.

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IdentityFederation
https://idp.u.washington.edu/metadata/idp-metadata.xml
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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-washington/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-washington-domain-standards-conformance.yml

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-washington:identity-federation
name: UW Shibboleth Identity Provider (InCommon)
description: UW's Shibboleth identity provider publishes signed SAML 2.0 metadata at a stable URL — entityID
  urn:mace:incommon:washington.edu, scope washington.edu, InCommon registration ID INC20180221T195121.
  Machine-readable, unauthenticated, institution-operated by definition, and one of the very few open
  programmable surfaces most universities have.
humanURL: https://idp.u.washington.edu/metadata/idp-metadata.xml
baseURL: https://idp.u.washington.edu/metadata/idp-metadata.xml
x-operator: institution
x-service: Identity Federation
tags:
- Identity Federation
- Shibboleth
- SAML
- InCommon
- Identity
properties:
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://idp.u.washington.edu/metadata/idp-metadata.xml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-washington-domain-standards-conformance.yml