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The benefit of the BPA is that its proxy-based architecture provides both a technical integration point for authentication and authorisation , as well as and a centralised point for implementing the research communities' policies. The BPA also identifies a ‘membership management service’ which implements community-specific onboarding to help establish the researcher's status and may be used to issue community-specific attributes to establish roles and rights. Implementations of the BPA, like eduTEAMS and SRAM, have greatly improved the capability to use FIM for research communities.
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For the European academic trust and identity community, these developments present both challenges: how does this SSI ecosystem relate to Federated Identity and the established practices developed? There may also be opportunities: does this perhaps help us save cost when we enrol researchesresearchers, or external identities in our collaborations, can we perhaps build trust in a new way, can we now finally get rid of proxies?
To further explore these questions, an AARC BPA SSI expert working group (Group) will be formed to further explore, investigate and discuss such questions.
The discussion, (open) questions and possible answers of the working group Group will be captured and disseminated in the T&I community.
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- The Group will hold periodic meetings for about 3-4 weeks for about 2.5 hours, starting from week 36, 2022 until the end of between September and November 2022.
- The Group will establish topics and contents to be discussed.
- The process is intended to be flexible and exploratory.
- It is expected not only technical topics will be discussed, but also privacy, assurance and trust.
- The Incubator members serve and facilitate the process, including note-taking and writing out the proceedings.
- Proceedings will be made available to the Group for feedback and review before being finalized.
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- The Group will have online meetings in from September and October to November 2022.
Week 48 is a wrapup/spill-over meeting - Meetings take 2.5 hours with 15 min lead times and 15 min breaks between 1-hour discussion slots
- Using a doodle poll, participants will be invited to select either of the following slots will be selected by Group members (Incubator team member availability is restricting the use of other slots):
- Wed morning 10.00 - 12.30
- Mon afternoon, 13.30 to - 16.00
- Fri morning, 10.00 - 12.30
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