MVP 0.1

Metadata Management

• Add/Remove metadata (endpoint) for the entire federation
  • SSP: feeds into the configuration of Metarefresh
  • SaToSa: ?
• Add/Remove metadata (endpoint) for individual SPs/IdPs

Relation Management

• Select a SP to make it 'active'
  • Attribute Release Policy - Only allow REFEDS entity categories (anonymous, pseudonymous, personalized, R&S)
• Select an IdP to make it 'active'
  • Requested attributes - Select which entity category to request.

My Metadata

Setup user facing aspects of proxy

• Displayname
• Supported entity categories
• Logo

Features for a Later Version

Assumptions

• We assume the number of connected entities is less than X (<50)

Open Question

• Do we have 1 entity endpoint (so only the whole proxy), or do we publish separate endpoints for each and every entity we have connected?

Proposed Features

To be prioritised for an MVP

• Translating between SAML and OIDC

Audit trail

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"Proxy Wizard"

• Ability to configure entities preloaded into the proxy based on entity federation metadata

Proxy Administration

• Local accounts and roles? Or a single locally-managed admin user?

Entity management

• Configuration of SAML IdP
  • Select entity which exist based on federation metadata
• Configuration of SAML SP
• Configuration of OIDC OP
• Configuration of OIDC RP
• Generic entity configuration management
  • Export/import of config items/entities
  • Copy/delete (copy as poor man's versioning, should it also work on groups of items)
  • Editing of entities in the GUI (common configuration items, protocol specific features)
  • Raw config edit
    • Is the GUI a facade that allows only basic configuration for beginners? If so, how do we represent more complicated valid configs that were created manually?
    • What happens if the config is broken by the user's manual changes? Display an error in the GUI and allow rollback to the previous version?
  • Apply config
  • Git config save
  • Generic post processor for configs, could be used to implement configuration deployment and activation and Git push
• Management of individual IDPs/Authorisation Servers/OPs and SPs/RPs/clients within the SP proxy
• Config checks (could also be one of the post-processors)
• Versioning
• Rollback from Git (Git config restore)
• Topology graph
• Management of multiple proxy instances
• Management of proxy (related) data for individual entities
• Entity lifecycle (expressed as states in the GUI? - what is the consequence of being in a certain state?)
  
  • Draft
  • Test
  • Production
  • Support for parked entities/configs
  • Logically deleted

Other

• GUI for internal admin of the proxy (for key internal settings apart from managed services' configs)
• Federation/eduGAIN support
• Additional support for federated identity management - what specifically?
• API to access/edit service configuration/history???
• Validation of encryption and signatures of entities and their messages
• Enforcement of authentication and authorisation policies - defined locally or by IdPs?
• Integration with MFA by the proxy
• Reporting and analytics - (sounds like an expansion of auditing - correctly chosen audit data and format might make this easier)
  • Statistics
  • Issues
  • Events/logs
• Step back/forward during config changes (Step-by-step wizard for adding a new entity/item)
• Dynamic updates to the configuration without requiring a full restart of the proxy service (GUI is apart from proxy services)

Managing (meta)data exchange

• Management of attribute filtering between IDPs and SPs?
• Management of mapping of attributes
• Attribute transformation rules?
• Setting of attribute values - for which entities?

Key concepts and their (alternative) names

These suggestions are for now mostly SAML flavoured to suit the target users:

• Identity provider - IdP or OP (OpenID Provider), while Authorisation Server is a more specific role
• Service provider - SP or RP/client ("client" is rather an OAuth2 term and is too overloaded)
• Entity - Identity provider or service provider
• Identity proxy - For now this, or "SP proxy", not "proxy" nor "client proxy". Consider "Identity Broker" to make this more general?
• Configuration - settings (in a text file, optionally in a GUI) for an identity provider, service provider or SP proxy

• Identity Federation - technical and organisational arrangement connecting multiple identity providers (IdPs) and service providers (SPs) to allow users to authenticate and access resources across different domains with a single set of credentials.

• ...

Consider whether to use separate terminological "branches" for OIDC/SAML - specific names or conflate them into a unified terminology?