The REFEDS Entity Category Research and Scholarship (R&S) supports research and scholarship interaction, collaboration or management as an essential Component with release of mostly harmless attributes. For more information please see REFEDS Entity Category Research and Scholarship.

The GÉANT Data protection Code of Conduct (CoCo) defines an approach at a European level to meet the requirements of the European Union Data Protection Directive for releasing mostly harmless personal attributes to a Service Provider (SP) from an Identity Provider (IdP). For more information please see GEANT Data Protection Code of Conduct.

The Hide From Discovery entity category is a category of Identity Providers that are intended not to be shown on discovery interfaces by default. For more information please see REFEDS Hide From Discovery Entity Category.