In a federated AAI, the user’s Home Organisation issuing and managing user’s credentials determines the assurance level available for the user identity. For the risk management of the research services relying on the federated AAI, it is important to determine the assurance profile available for the authenticated users. What the relevant assurance profile is obviously very much depends on the risk associated with offering the service, the availability of resource to provide identity and attribute assurance, and a mechanism to convey defined assurance information. Whilst most of these elements are beyond the direct control of AARC, the baseline and differentiates assurance profiles developed through AARC - in close collaboration with the user communites, research and e-infrastructures, and with consultation from federation and IdP operators via the GEANT4 project - help establish common ground by which to exchange policy information
- 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
DNA3.1 - Differentiated LoA recommendations
The consolidated and formatted version of DNA3.1 (due M23) is now available:
Under development
The REFEDS assurance framework discussed 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 23.10.2015
- 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