Pilot Description

The goal of this pilot is to onboard the CTA community on federated identity in a larger, broader meaning - moving from a stand-alone solution based on IdP to a fully federated one as a possible long term goal. In the meanwhile, short terms goals for the pilot are the implmentation of the TIER-like components ( COMANAGE, GROUPER) and a IDP/SP proxy to work in a synergic way for the CTA AAI.

Identity linking between the IDs of the current standalone CTA IDP and the eduGAIN ones are a relevant goal for this pilot.

Pilot goals

1. Explain why these components have been chosen

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.

Description

Main objective of this section is to report detailed informations about pilot. 

Some questions:

• How this pilot works

• Reason to prefer this pilot instead of other existing tool

• Detailed Scope

• others

Components

This section will contain a lists of components used for this pilot and why they were chosen instead of others

It is not required to add a detailed description for each component, but 2 important parts are:

1. Add Link to component web page
2. Add a short description to explain its function (not more than 1 raw)

An example:

• Component A - Service provider
• Component B - Bring order to chaos
• Component C - Hide my precious treasure

CTA Pilot use different components to achieve its goal:

Architecture

This section will provide 2 important parts:

• Graphic representations of pilot architecture

• Graphic representations of workflow

Use Cases

This section should explain how this pilot works through use cases (at least 2).