InCommon has approved three additional service providers for the Research & Scholarship (R&S) category: CarmenWiki, at Ohio State, the LIGO CBC Wiki, and the Penn State WikiSpaces. This brings the total number of R&S service providers to six (see the federation info pages for a complete list).
Service providers (SPs) eligible for the R&S category support research and scholarship activities such as virtual organizations and campus-based collaboration services. Participating identity providers (IdPs) agree to release a minimal set of attributes to R&S SPs (name, email address, user identifier, and affiliation). This can be done with a one-time modification to the IdP’s default attribute release policy, which applies to the entire R&S category. This provides a simpler and more scalable approach for IdPs than negotiating attribute release individually with every service provider.
See the InCommon wiki for complete information about the R&S Category.