This white-paper expresses common requirements of Research Communities seeking to leverage Identity Federation for Authentication and Authorisation. Recommendations are made to Stakeholders to guide the future evolution of Federated Identity Management in a direction that better satisfies research use cases. The authors represent research communities, Research Services, Infrastructures, Identity Federations and Interfederations, with a joint motivation to ease collaboration for distributed researchers. The content has been edited collaboratively by the Federated Identity Management for Research (FIM4R) Community, with input sought at conferences and meetings in Europe, Asia and North America. E-mail: contact@fim4r.org For the ORCID R © identifiers and author affiliations of the “Federated Identity Management for Research” collaboration to their various Research Communities and e-Infrastructures, see Appendix A. Document details Version: 2.0. Date: 9 July 2018 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1296031 c © 2018 by the Authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.