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• The collaboration gets the benefits of federated identity management for authorisation by integrating with eduGAIN, plus the benefits of a persistent identifier for a user that is specific to a collaboration.
• The collaboration gets the benefits of being able to work with researchers outside the footprint of eduGAIN e.g. using a social ID, without that ID being directly connected to a given service.
  
  

eduTEAMS supports XXX of the features identified in by the FIM4R Federated Identity Management for Research Group as key for research collaboration

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eduTEAMS also benefits end users by allowing them to use their home organisation credentials to access services outside their campus in a privacy preserving, secure way.

eduTEAMS benefits national identity federations by enabling their infrastructures to more easily serve complex federated authorization needs without increasing individual national investment.

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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