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Identity linking between the IDs of the current standalone CTA IDP and the eduGAIN ones are a relevant goal for this pilot.
Pilot goals
Some questions to answer:
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What are the goals of this pilot?
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Why is it in AARC project?
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How this pilot will improve AARC community?
The goal of this pilot is to provide a non-invasive solution to simplify access to CTA services from eduGAIN and CTA community.
CTA pilot should provide a solution to CTA administrator that does not upset the mechanisms in use, because they are well know.
With this pilot, new features will be introduce:
- Self service registration under administrator approval
- Account linking solution, under administrator approval
- simple integration and transparency to any future CTA services.
Identity linking between the IDs of the current standalone CTA IDP and the eduGAIN ones are a relevant goal for this pilot.
A long term goal of this pilot is to moving CTA community from a stand-alone solution based on IdP to a fully federated one.
This pilot perfectly fit with AARC goals:
- It help to solve issue related to authentication from different IdP but logically related to the same scientific community
- The proposed solution uses only existing technologies, without creating new ones
- It does not change background of CTA community
Even if this pilot propose a solution for CTA community, its components high flexibility allow to change configuration, so every scientific reality that needs this solution can adapt it to their community, to fit their needs of authentication and authorization.
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Description
Main objective of this section is to report detailed informations about pilot.
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