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Magaging the relations between services and identity providers is a challange, both for emerging adopters of federation technologies, collaborative organisations and institutions alike. Typically technical complexity and a steep learning curve are the liming factors in the ability to manage a SAML or OIDC based ecosystem.

A proxy solution GUI may help reduce the complexity of managing the environment, as it provides a single integration and organisational interface for managing the relations. Even so, current proxy products are still rather technically inclined and do not provide easy to use interface to configure the entities.

This activity takes inspiration from the prototype build in the TIM programme in the previous cycle and aims to create a (browser based) GUI to allow (proxy) operators to easily configure the proxy. THe proxy The GUI is to be build in such a way it may be deployed independently from the proxy product. A reference implmentation will then be build for both SimpleSAMLphp and SaToSa.

Create a GUI driven component to help configure commonly ised proxies endpoints and metadata for tools like SSP and SaToSa. The GUI will focus on day to day management of relations between the deployed identity product and external resources.
Note: the T&I incubator expands the original proposal to create a generic configuration wizard. The user will be able to set up remote parties and endpoints. A proxy mode is just a special case where multiple endpoints are configured.

• Describe usecases and flows
• Describe technical requirements
• Design GUI prototypes
• Design architectire for proxy product independent solution
• Implement SSP module for proxy entities & endpoints configuration
• Implement SaToSa component for proxy entities & endpoints configuration