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The goal of this pilot is to provide a non-invasive solution to simplify access to CTA services from eduGAIN and the CTA community.
CTA pilot should provide a solution to CTA administrator that does not upset the mechanisms in use, because they are well knowknown.
With this pilot, new features will be introduceintroduced:
- Self service registration under administrator approval
- Account linking solution, under administrator approval
- simple Simple integration and transparency to any future CTA servicesservice.
Identity linking between the IDs of the current standalone CTA IDP IdP and the eduGAIN ones are a relevant goal for this pilot.
A long term goal of this pilot is to moving move CTA community from a stand-alone solution based on IdP to a fully federated one.
This pilot perfectly fit fits with AARC's goals:
- It help helps to solve issue issues related to authentication from different IdP IdPs but logically related to the same scientific community
- The proposed solution uses only existing technologies, without the need to creating new ones
- It does not change background of the global approach for the CTA community
Even if this pilot propose proposes a solution for the CTA community, its components high flexibility allow to change configuration, so every scientific reality that needs this solution can adapt it to their community, to fit their needs of authentication and authorization.
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