InCommon metadata support

[Brian Larsen <>]

Apologies for the naivety of this question in advance.

As an SP, we are now beginning the pilot phase of supporting the 
differentiation between IdP and sub-units (departments, faculties, etc.) and 
simultaneous auth/auth to both entities.

Our initial expectation was that this information should be passed as 
EntityID = institution, OrgId = sub unit. But, in at least one case, we are 
seeing this distinction made in the ScopedAffiliation. So…



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Could someone with experience in this space point me at some best practices 
documentation and/or set me straight on this issue? Should both means of 
differentiation be expected and supported?

I feel like I am missing something obvious here, so please be kind.

Best,

BRIAN LARSEN
Associate Director, Support Services
ITHAKA
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