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Higher Education eXternal Attribute Authority (HEXAA) is an attribute authority and aggregation service developed and maintained by MTA SZTAKI and NIIFI. It has been developed by an eponymous Open Call project within the GN3plus project and is currently supported by the institutions that developed it.

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Features

HEXAA is primarily an external attribute provider, meaning a third party providing attributes on top of the attributes provided by the IdPs.

  • Tailored to VO Management

  • Storage of non IdP dependent attributes

  • Attribute release consent management

  • Automations available triggered on changes

HEXAA can act also as an attribute aggregator, providing attributes from external (external from HEXAA) sources (e.g. ORCID).

HEXAA at the moment does not implement full VO membership life cycle management, such as attribute expiration.

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