Entity Category (support)

[nicoleharris]

Under section 5 only requirements for Identity Providers are defined but normally an IdP uses Entity Support Category not Entity Category. Is this per design or only a mistake? Pal Axelsson.

Comment from Rhys Smith: "normally an IdP uses Entity Support Category not Entity Category" - is correct, but only by coincidence. An entity that has a specific categorisation has an entity category. It just so happens that so far, all categorisations have been for SPs, and so the IdPs have the ESC. This is a categorisation about an IdP, so it's right the IdP has an EC. If there was a corresponding ESC, it would be assigned to the SP that supports that IdP EC. Propose dropping ECS text.

Comment from Peter Schober: https://refeds.org/category/hide-from-discovery is an(other) existing Entity Category for IDPs.