Authentication and Authorisation for Research Collaboration Technical Revision to Enhance Effectiveness - AARC TREE
Collaboration and sharing of resources is critical for research. Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructures (AAIs) play a key role in enabling federated interoperable access to resources.
The AARC Technical Revision to Enhance Effectiveness (AARC TREE) project takes the successful and globally recognised “Authentication and Authorisation for Research Collaboration” (AARC) model and its flagship outcome, the AARC Blueprint Architecture (BPA), as the basis to drive the next phase of integration for research infrastructures: expand federated access management to integrate user-centring technologies, expand access to federated data and services (authorisation), consolidating existing capacities and avoiding fragmentation and unnecessary duplication.
SCCs participates in AARC-TREE to continue developing the Blueprint Architectures. Here we contribute to technical recommendations, as well as to policy development. Since SCC is also a core member of the IAM project of the german NFDI, we can raise the awareness of NFDI requirements in AARC, as well as feed new developments back to NFDI, in a very timely manner.
Identity & Access Management for the National Research Data Infrastructure - IAM4NFDI
Identity and Access Management (IAM) is concerned with the processes, policies and technologies for managing digital identities and their access rights to specific resources. Providing IAM as a basic serivce, IAM4NFDI is funded by Base4NFDI.
The task of the Basic Service IAM is to establish and provide a state-of-the-art AAI, that fosters cross-consortial and international collaboration.
A central goal of IAM4NFDI is therefore enable unified access to data, software, and compute resources, as well as sovereign data exchange and collaborative work for all NFDI consortia, as well as compatible initiatives. In order to achieve this, an extended version of the AARC Blueprint Architecture will be implemented an provided as a service to interested NFDI consortia.
This will enable researchers from different domains and institutions to access digital resources within and beyond NFDI. Users from approx. 400 German research and higher education institutions plus approx. 4800 home organisations worldwide will be able to access services and resources provided by the NFDI Community AAI. Also google, github, or ORCID accounts are enabled to access specific parts of the provided services.
All tools and solutions developed within IAM4NFDI are compatible with standards and the AARC Recommendations.
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