Shibboleth in Switzerland Internet2 Spring Meeting 2004 Thomas Lenggenhager lenggenhager@switch.ch Overview SWITCH & SWITCHaai Project SWITCHaai Federation Integrating Resources into legal framework Virtual Home Organizations
SWITCH SWITCH – The Swiss Education & Research Network a foundation of the federal and regional governments provides connectivity redundant dark-fiber based backbone and network services for Swiss universities AAI, video conference, mail gateways, … 12 universities 110’000 students 47’000 faculty & staff 7 universities of applied sciences 36’000 students 17’000 faculty & staff Swiss population ~ 7 million http://www.switch.ch/
SWITCHaai SWITCHaai – Authentication & Authorization Infrastructure Shibboleth selected as architecture in mid 2003 current status: migration from pilot to production service 5 Home Organizations at bigger universities SWITCH HomeOrg & Virtual Home Organization (VHO) 3 e-learning resources in use by students public demo resources http://www.switch.ch/aai/demo/ http://www.switch.ch/aai/
SWITCHaai Federation SWITCH acts as federation service provider Federation membership based on signed service agreements
Resources and the Federation Resource has to belong to an organization of a federation member Resource Registry Resource description (technical & human oriented) Resource owner Attribute requirements Community of interest Information source for ARP generation Third Party Resources Integration of Federation Partners: for further study
Virtual Home Organization – VHO Problem: Users without a shibbolized Home Org What shall they do? Solution: Virtual Home Organization The exception, not the rule! Minimal information Clearly marked as special users through swissEduPersonHomeOrganizationType = vho use of entitlement attribute for authorization Project/resource oriented Users managed by the project/resource owner One user might have multiple identities