Show pagesourceOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top Recent ChangesSend via e-MailPrintPermalink × This page is not fully translated, yet. Please help completing the translation. (remove this paragraph once the translation is finished) DFN-AAI service portfolio As the federation operator, DFN-Verein acts as a Trusted Third Party, which ensures compliance with the technical and legal framework conditions and thus establishes a relationship of trust. In this role, DFN-Verein assumes various tasks: Contracts with all participating institutions and service providers, see under Registration Creating guidelines (policies) and monitoring compliance with them The following service components are offered to realize the federation operation on a technical level: metadata management, regular validation and signing of federation metadata Support of so-called local metadata for participating institutions Support of so-called virtual subfederations Operation of central localization services: Discovery services, also called “WAYF” (Where Are You From), see under Productive operation Active promotion of the (further) development of the Shibboleth Software, membership in the Shibboleth Consortium Operation of an Incident Response Team together with the DFN-CERT Support for technical problems and other AAI-related questions, see Contact Workshops and training for participating institutions and service providers (please send training requests to hotline@aai.dfn.de) International cooperation: Cross-federation AAI via eduGAIN Collaboration in international initiatives (REFEDS) and projects such as GÉANT and AARC Support of international research communities: FIM4R, CLARIN etc. Involvement of the user community in the design and further development of the service AAI forum as part of the DFN-Betriebstagung Participation in the ZKI working group Identity and Access Management Topic-specific ad-hoc working groups Further development of the service on a technical, organizational and legal level: Regular consultations with the Forschungsstelle Recht im DFN Support for new technologies and standards such as OpenID Connect, membership in the OpenID Foundation, participation in the Research & Education Working Group Expansion of the service portfolio, e.g. edu-ID Evaluation of new approaches to increase the level of trust in the DFN-AAI, introduction of the REFEDS Assurance Framework Last modified: 2 months ago Log In