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- Read the initial Baseline Assurance requirements coordinated by major RIs and e-Infrastructures in our MNA3.1 document
- Participate in the process to establish differentiated assurance profiles
- Support the design and requirements gathering of a self assessment tool for assurance profiles and best practices in federations
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- Support the development of higher assurance through an inventory of use cases for AARC2 communities (which will be the basis for evaluation of e.g. RAF Espresso suitability)
Exchange of assurance information between Infrastructures
In support of the inter-infrastructure use cases and the BPA, Guideline G021 on the exchange of specific assurance information has been adopted by AEGIS. These guidelines SHOULD be used when exchanging assurance information between SP-IdP-Proxy components of Infrastructures (“Infrastructure Proxies”), and MAY be used when conveying assurance information between an SP-IdP-Proxy and service providers that are part of a coordinated set or consortium and bound to one or more Infrastructure Proxies.
If the exchange involves authentications involving user-held credentials based on social media accounts (like Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, &c), also take Guideline G041 into account, which describes bow REFEDS RAF assurance components should be expressed by the BPA Proxies and how these may be combined on 'outbound' assertions.
Differentiated LoA recommendations
The consolidated and formatted version of our work DNA3.1 is now available:
The baseline assurance profile, comprising the six key elements needed for almost all research and collaborative use cases, have been available since 2016:
- Baseline assurance for low-risk research use cases (MNA3.1): in PDF format
In public comment
The REFEDS Assurance Framework discusses the components of assurance (for IdPs) and how to group these together in ways that make sense to (groups of) SPs:
Public Consulations (Completed)
- Baseline LoA (MNA3.1) (pdf), submitted to EC and exposed to the community consultation
- public comments period 1 December 2015-17th Jan 2016. Comments received (pdf).
Working papers
- Survey for SPs on LoA needs
- Communities
- EGI - David Groep (LoA-EGI.pdf)
- WLCG - Romain Wartel and Hannah Short (Google doc)
- PRACE - Jules Wolfrat (LoA-PRACE.docx)
- DARIAH - Martin Haase (Google doc)
- CLARIN - Martin Matthiesen (LoA-clarin.docx)
- ELIXIR - Ilkka Lappalainen (LoA-ELIXIR.docx)
- Photon/Neutron (Umbrella) - Mirjam van Daalen and Björn Abt (LoA-photon-neutron.docx)
- LIGO - Scott Koranda and Warren Anderson (Google doc)
- Summary of interviews (Google doc)
Meetings
- GN4/AARC LoA Coordination 3.7.2015
- GN4/AARC LoA Coordination 4.9.2015
- GN4/AARC LoA Coordination 28.9.2015
- GN4/AARC LoA Coordination 23.10.20152015
- GN4/AARC LoA Coordination 13.11.2015
- GN4/AARC LoA Coordination 26.11.2015
- GN4/AARC LoA Coordination 13.1.2016
- GN4/AARC LoA Coordination 27.1.2016
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