AARC Pilots

Overall goals and approach of Pilots in AARC

Aims

The Pilots activity aims at facilitating researchers by providing the access management tools and framework to support collaborative research in a distributed environment. To this end, in this activity we demonstrate through (pre-) production services that:

• existing AAIs and authentication sources can be leveraged to enable (SSO) access with appropriate level of assurance for any natural person (academia and non-academia) to shared resources offered by different e-Infrastructure providers and communities. (task 1)

• authoritative decisions and user/group context can be based on distributed group managers and attribute providers. (task 2)

• access to non-web and commercial e-infrastructure services can be enabled. This requires the bridging of SAML (NREN world) and token/certificate based (e-infra world). (task 3)

Approach

The approach consists of deploying existing components as discussed with and identified by JRA1 and to integrate a selection of these components according to a common architecture that has been drafted in JRA1. To this purpose we established a stable pilot environment with solutions to be tried and assessed by stakeholders of the research communities. A more detailed description of the aims and approach of the pilots activity is available here: Specify the work to be undertaken in collaboration with JRA1 and NA3