A number of validation tools already exist in the community, which can be integrated or used as inspiration in the development of the AARC validation suite. This page provides a list of tools collected so far and their documentations.

1. Compliance Assessment Toolkit (CAT)
   • An easy to use Toolkit to measure compliance with a Policy based on the results of a Conceptual Model (definitions, relationships)
   • Instance hosted at: https://cat.argo.grnet.gr/, development instance at https://cat.devel.argo.grnet.gr/
   • Documentation:
     • https://faircore4eosc.eu/eosc-core-components/compliance-assessment-toolkit-cat
     • https://fc4e-cat.github.io/fc4e-cat-doc/docs/intro
     • API: https://api.cat.argo.grnet.gr/
   • Source code: https://github.com/FC4E-CAT
2. NFDI Attribute COnformity Checker (naco)
   • Service that checks Attributes for compliance with NFDI expectations for multiple registered OPs
   • Instance hosted at: https://cvs.data.kit.edu/~naco/
   • Source code: https://codebase.helmholtz.cloud/m-team/tools/naco/
   • Documentation NFDI Attribute Profile: https://doc.nfdi-aai.de/attributes/
3. eduGAIN Attribute Release Check (EARC)
   • Service that allows testing whether the Identity Provider of an organisation participating in eduGAIN properly releases user attributes to eduGAIN services
   • Instance hosted at: https://release-check.edugain.org
   • Documentation: https://wiki.geant.org/display/eduGAIN/Release+Check+Evaluation+Rules
   • Source code: https://gitlab.software.geant.org/edugain/earc/edugain-attribute-release-check
4. SWAMID Release Check
   • Similar to EARC
   • Instance hosted at: https://release-check.swamid.se
5. Oidc ProvidEr featUre Support (OrPhEUS)
   • System to compare different OpenID Connect providers, check which functionality is supported by these, and investigate how certain OpenID Connect flows work
   • Instance hosted at: https://orpheus.data.kit.edu/
   • Source code and documentation: https://codebase.helmholtz.cloud/m-team/oidc/orpheus
6. AARC Entitlement Library
   • This package provides python classes to create, parse and compare entitlements according to the AARC recommendations G002 and G069.
   • Documentation: https://aarcentitlement.readthedocs.io/
   • Source code: https://github.com/KIT-SCC/AarcEntitlement