The following resources were prepared to support a basic training course to raise awareness of AAI and Federations with the GÉANT environment for non-technical people within the company that worked with customers and needed more grounding in the concepts. The course was divided into five sections.
Course Element | Contents |
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AAI Training Outline | Breakdown of Schedule |
Part One: AAI Fundamentals | What is Federated Identity Management? What is a Federation? Full mesh example (SWITCHaai) Hub and spoke federation example Other examples What is Interfederation? eduGAIN example Quiz / Exercises |
Part Two: Under The Hood | Technical aspects of SAML based Identity Federations Metadata, SAML, Deployment Profiles, Attributes, Typical ecosystem of a federation Quiz / Exercises |
Part Three: Research Community Requirements | FIM4Paper and Requirements |
Part Four: NREN Identity Strategy | Current approach by NRENs in Europe (and wider) |
Part Five: Supply Chain | LoA Attribute release Attribute aggregation Monitoring/Accounting Quiz / Exercises |