VT Federated Identity Providers Assessment
General Project Information
- Leader: Daniel Kouril (CESNET)
- Mailing List: vt-egi-federated-identity@mailman.egi.eu
- Status: Active
- Start Date: 10/Nov/2011
- End Date: When its goal is achiveved, but not later than 30/Apr/2012
- Meetings:
Motivation
Federated identity services could significantly simplify access to the infrastructure. Introducing federated identity mechanisms in EGI is a requirement from many communities. This VT project would take a step towards this direction, by assessing the readiness of the NGIs in adopting some type of federated identity provision mechanism for accessing services (e.g. Terena Certificate Services). Several NGIs have done developments towards this direction.
Output
The expected output of this project is a report on the current coverage of NGIs with federated identity provision services and recommendation on mechanisms to increase the federated identity providers coverage within EGI. The report can be used by both NGIs and EGI.eu outside of this VT to increase the coverage or to initiate other types of related actions.
Tasks
- Assess the coverage of Terena Certificate Providers in NGIs
- Collect info about other types of federated identity services that NGIs already use
Members
- NGIs - confirmed:
- Czech Republic: Daniel Kouril (Leader), Michal Prochazka
- Ireland: David O'Callaghan
- NGIs - unconfirmed:
- Switzerland: Sergio Maffioletti
- Germany: Torsten Antoni
- France: Genevieve Romier
- Greece: Kostas Koumantaros, Christos Kanelopoulos
- Italy: Daniele Cesini
- EGI.eu:
- Gergely Sipos
Resources
- List of TERENA certificate providers: http://www.terena.org/activities/tcs/participants.html
- Federated web services: http://atlases.muni.cz
- Mechanism to release a x509 certificate in a user-transparent way from an online CA: http://wiki.italiangrid.it/twiki/pub/UserSupport/NGIITGeneralPurposePortal/Whitepaper-portal-CAonline-interaction.pdf
- Edugate: Federation of Irish Higher Education Institutions and Research Organisations: http://www.edugate.ie/
Progress
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