AARC and GEANT GN4 projects are studying the Service Provider (SP) communities' (such as research infrastructures/communities) requirements on Level of Assurance (LoA). The survey results will serve the future development of federated authentication and authorization where an end user's Home Organisation (e.g. the university or research institute employing the researcher) delivers him/her the authentication credentials and authenticates him/her.

The intention is to collect SP communities' needs for the Level of Assurance (LoA) of the identity and authentication provided by research Home Organisations i.e. the universities or other institutes employing the researchers and assigning them user identities.

1.Introduction to LoA

Narrowly speaking, LoA for user authentication covers two things:

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• quality and freshness of user attributes (self-asserted by the user or Home Organisation vetted)
• Home Organisation's ability and willingness to populate and release the attributes to the SPs

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2. Questions on the research infrastructures/communities

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