Guest Access (TSA1.1)
Task Leader: GARR, Mario Reale
This task deals with the pilot activities to be set up for AARC in the domain of Guest Identities; It will mostly liaise with the AARC architecture and the AARC policy harmonisation activities in order to effectively demonstrate the validity of the selected components and architecture designed, and the best practices and recommendations identified.
Reference solutions for Guest Identities as identified by AARC JRA1 Task3 : https://aarc-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/MJRA1.2-Design-for-Deploying-Solutions-for-Guest-Identities.pdf
This task consists of several subtasks with different activities:
- "Long tail of Science" - subtask TSA1.1.1 . This subtask deals with bridging the NREN world towards Social and Governmental IDs, using LoA-enhancing mechanisms to enable them to make use of Federated Services (SPs)
- "Catch-all Federation and Guest IDP / Cloud IDP" - subtask TSA1.1.2 This subtask deals with the enrollment of new IDs in a federated model: Create a catch-all Federation for IDPs without a reference federation; Provide new IDP through the Cloud
- "Libraries pilot" - subtask TSA1.1.3 --> This subtask deals with piloting the inclusion of library tools (including those handling access based on IP-addresses) and a workflow into a federated model for identity management, with support for Library Walk-In users (e.g. citizen scientists) which are not registered in the Campuses IDM systems
Status per June 1st 2016
- The pilots to address the use cases of the library community are in a final stage.
- A pilot to include the long tail of science, provide them with suitable authentication methods is currently in preparation
- The work on "catch-all federation" has not been started yet.