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How is eduTEAMS different from e-Infrastructures like EUDAT, EGI, INDIGO DataCloud, ...

(Work in progress, has yet to be reviewed/verified)

• eduTEAMS consists of a set of services that are all fully relying on eduGAIN
  There is not a single eduTEAMS service but multiple independent but harmonized services including:
  • The eduTEAMS Identity Hub, an Identity Provider for users without federated login
  • eduTEAMS Member Registration, a platform that allows managing groups and processes
  • eduTEAMS Discovery Service, a service that allows one to easily custom-tailor the list of organisations that users can choose from to log in
• eduTEAMS is free in the Basic version
  The Basic version provides everything that a small to medium-sized research community would need to start collaborating. If this is not enough, the Advanced version offers more features at moderate costs. The Advanced version is not free to ensure its sustainability.
• eduTEAMS is using open source products that are freely available
  The products used for the current components are CoManage, SaToSA and the CESNET Discovery Service (tbc).
• eduTEAMS is allows connecting own web services to the Member Registration attribute authority service
  This allows these services to consume authorization information allows to easily connect own web services to the Member Registration attribute authority service
  Services can consume authorization information (e.g. group membership) for access control.
  There are multiple Multiple protocols that can be used to access authorisation information (e.g. SAML via AttributeQueries, VOOT, Oauth)
  For most other comparable e-Infrastructure services this is not easily possible.
• eduTEAMS was created and is operated by the people who created eduGAIN
  The experts who created eduTEAMS also helped create the national identity federations and eduGAIN.
• eduTEAMS is a generic collaboration management service and open to all research communities
  Other
  Some e-Infrastructures were created with a particular research community in mind or for a specific purpose. Therefore, they often some of them are custom tailored to these communities a particular research community's needs and requirements, which might be limiting for others. Some e-Infrastructures offer way more features than eduTEAMS but this comes at the cost of complexity.
  eduTEAMS was created from the ground up as a generic collaboration service for small to medium-sized research communities.

How eduTEAMS Works

The Basic eduTEAMS service combines work flow components provided by COmanage with a SAML Attribute Authority, the VOOT Protocol and Oauth in order to provide information to the service provider to make an authorisation decision. It also provides a choice of authentication possibilities, from a classic federated Identity Provider within eduGAIN to a social identity such as a Google ID via the Identity Hub.

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