Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation Overview
Working together to create trusted and reliable collaborations
The InCommon community has adopted the Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation to improve interoperability.
Led by the InCommon Community Trust and Assurance Board, the community determined that a set of common expectations that all participants meet will
- provide a baseline for trust
- make collaboration more predictable
- ensure that the InCommon Federation’s strategic value to research and education continues to grow
The Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation are comprised of three brief sets of statements for: Identity Provider Operators (IdP), Service Provider Operators (SP), and the Federation Operator.
Baseline Expectations Overview and Q/A
A September 23, 2020, overview presentation and question/answer session on Baseline Expectations v2.
Evolving via consensus
The community drives the process of evolving and clarifying the Baseline Expectations, led by the InCommon Community Trust and Assurance Board (CTAB).
Resolving disputes
Undoubtedly there will be cases of dispute – for example, when a participant believes that another organization’s operations do not meet Baseline Expectations. The Baseline Expectations include a dispute resolution process to resolve disagreements.
Intent to alter metadata
As the federation operator, InCommon also has responsibilities under Baseline Expectations. For example, InCommon has several processes to ensure that Participants’ federation metadata is accurate. Part of the documentation is a process that InCommon will use before it alters metadata.
These are links to documents and resources related to Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation.