1. http://aarc-project.eu Authentication and Authorisation for Research and Collaboration Licia Florio IGTF Meeting The AARC Project Amsterdam, 8 September 2015 AARC Coordinator GÉANT

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3. 3 AARC Facts Two-year EC-funded project 20 partners NRENs, e-Infrastructure providers and Libraries as equal partners About 3M euro budget Starting date 1st May, 2015 https://aarc-project.eu/ Authentication and Authorisation for Research and Collaboration

4. http://aarc-project.eu 4 AARC Vision and Objectives Improve federated access by addressing current challenges Harmonise policies among e-Infrastructures to ease service delivery Avoid the creation of project-specific AAIs by enabling researchers to use their existing credentials to access different resources Avoid the creation of project-specific AAIs by enabling researchers to use their existing credentials to access different resources Define a training package for institutions and services to support federated access Integrate existing R&E AAIs to create a highway for identities

5. http://aarc-project.eu 5 AARC Structure

6. http://aarc-project.eu 6 The landscape 6 AARC Requirements Anchored in real use cases Design Integrated AAI and relevant services Pilots AARC technical and policy findings Training REFEDS/FIM4R REFEDS: Feedback and validation from Fed Operators on best practices FIM4R: Feedback on pilots from AAI user communities Requirements/feedback for training and architecture e-Infrastructures i.e. GEANT Develop business case Costing Supply chain Pilot deployment AARC results Operations eduGAIN Incorporate

7. http://aarc-project.eu 7 Working in progress

8. http://aarc-project.eu 8 Research work – Architecture Design Work led by Christos Kanellopoulos (GRNET) To design an integrated AAI that builds and addresses existing gaps Offer an approach for developing and deploying AAI services common to many e-infrastructures; - Attribute providers - Guest IdPs - Token translation solutions - And more Soon a doc to describe the drivers for the integrated architecture and a blog post

9. http://aarc-project.eu 9 Training and Outreach Work Work led by Alessandra Scicchitano (GÈANT) To define a training package tailored for service providers, decision makers and institutions on technical and legal aspects - Need for high level pitch on eduGAIN, support for VOs and so on - Reuse existing material as much as possible - Looking at training on entity categories (REFEDS) To disseminate the results of the projects Investigating the possibility of a book (federation for dummies) Del on use-cases: https://aarc-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/AARC- DNA2.1.pdf

10. http://aarc-project.eu 10 Pilots Work led by Paul Van Dijk (SURFnet) To pilot tools and framework to support collaborative research in a distributed environment Work on at least these areas: – Streamline access to key resources (commercial clouds, non-web, etc) – Managed IdPs – Security incident framework – Attr providers

11. http://aarc-project.eu End of Sep: Del on Analysis of user community requirements already overdue First training module – federation 101 type Early Nov: High level description of the existing design patterns (Elixir, EUDAT, Credential Translation, LoA/eGov,...) End Dec : Design for deploying solutions for “Guest identities” 11 Coming up

12. http://aarc-project.eu AARC Strengths: Different Communities involved as partners Same interest to deliver Common goal to expand the federated framework AARC Challenges: The heterogeneous group Scalability of results Deliver something that can be used immediately Preparation for AARC2 just started: Submission date March 2016 12 Conclusions and future work

13. http://aarc-project.eu AARC site: https://aarc-project.eu AARC wiki: https://wiki.geant.org/display/AARC/AARC+Home Deliverables: https://aarc-project.eu/documents/deliverables/ 13 References

14. http://aarc-project.eu © GEANT on behalf of the AARC project. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 653965 (AARC). Thank you Any Questions? Licia.Florio@geant.org