Description and Value Proposition

The Moonshot pilot aims to enhance the eduGAIN Web SSO and edurom network SSO services with support for non-web AAI functionality. It has additional benefits in providing the ability to converge multiple SSO infrastructures. The pilot brings together early adopters of this emerging technology and determines the factors necessary for transition to service.

Moonshot builds on deployed, proven technology:

• Strong authentication used by eduroam (EAP/RADIUS)
• Strong authorisation used by NREN federations and eduGAIN (SAML)
• Strong service/application integration used by many major applications (operating system security APIs)

Standardisation of this technology is being undertaken within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) – ABFAB WG to ensure that take up and adoption is possible across as broad a market as possible. Moonshot has been developed by Janet as an open source implementation of this, which is fully in line with current EC recommendations.

Phase 1: Initial infrastructure – This phase will encourage/facilitate participant NRENs in implementing a Trust Router architecture or enhancing existing eduroam architecture including the scaling up of international eduroam infrastructure.
Phase 2: Policies and wider roll out - This phase will develop the required Moonshot policies and technical peering requirements to facilitate non-web SSO interfederation. It will also include the development of advice and guidance for NRENs in what is required to implement an NREN-wide Moonshot infrastructure. This work will build on the existing eduGAIN policies.
Phase 3: Use Case implementation – This phase will facilitate the Moonshooting of specific community required services and applications. For example, Moonshooting distributed file systems to support the GRID community.

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