AARC Blueprint Architecture (BPA)
The purpose of the AARC Blueprint Architecture (BPA) is to provide set of interoperable architectural building blocks for software architects and technical decision makers, who are designing and implementing access management solutions for international research collaborations.
High-level Objectives
focus on the integration aspects of the blueprint architecture
provide recommendations and guidelines for implementers, service providers and infrastructure operators on implementing scalable and interoperable AAIs across e-infrastructures and scientific communities
work in close collaboration with the policy, pilots, and the training and outreach activities of AARC2
work on the evolution of the blueprint architecture, with a focus on identity provider / service provider (IdP/SP) proxies, scalable authorisation solutions for multi-service provider environments and other solutions for integrating with R&E federations and cross-sector AAIs
Documents
| ID | Title | Summary | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| AARC-JRA1.4A | Guidelines on expressing group membership and role information | Information about the groups a user is a member of is commonly used by SPs to authorise user access to protected resources. Apart from the group information that is managed by the user’s home IdP, research communities usually operate their own group managing services. Such services often act as Attribute Authorities, maintaining additional information about the users, including VO membership, group membership within VOs, as well as user roles. It is therefore necessary that all involved SPs and IdPs/AAs can interpret this information in a uniform way. Specifically, the following challenges are addressed by this document:
| AARC-JRA1.4A (201710) [PDF] Older versions AARC-JRA1.4A (1.0) [PDF] |
| AARC-JRA1.4B | Guidelines on attribute aggregation | ||
| AARC-JRA1.4C | Guidelines on token translation services | ||
| AARC-JRA1.4D | Guidelines on credential delegation | ||
AARC-JRA1.4E | Best practices for managing authorisation | ||
| AARC-JRA1.4F | Guidelines on non-browser access | ||
| AARC-JRA1.4G | Guidelines for implementing SAML authentication proxies for social media identity providers | ||
| AARC-JRA1.4H | Account linking and LoA elevation use cases and common practices for international research collaboration | ||
| AARC-JRA1.4I | Best practices and recommendations for attribute translation from federated authentication to X.509 credentials | ||
| AARC2-JRA1.1A | Guidelines for interoperable exchange of user and community information between AAIs | ||
| AARC2-JRA1.1B | Guidelines for the discovery of authoritative attribute providers across different operational domains | ||
| AARC2-JRA1.1C | Guidelines for handling user registration and user consent for releasing attributes across different operational domains | ||
| AARC2-JRA1.1D | Guidelines for federated access to non-web services across different operational domains | ||
| AARC2-JRA1.2A | Guidelines for scalable and consistent authorisation across multi-SP environments | Wiki | |
| AARC2-JRA1.2B | Requirements and guidelines for SPs using alternative mechanisms and protocols for federated access → OIDC Based Services in research | Wiki | |
| AARC2-JRA1.2C | Step-up authentication requirements and guidelines for SPs | Wiki | |
| AARC2-JRA1.3A | Guidelines for account linking & LoA elevation in cross-sector AAIs | Wiki | |
| AARC2-JRA1.3B | Guidelines for registering OIDC Relying Parties in AAIs for international research collaboration | Wiki | |
| AARC2-JRA1.3C | Guidelines for AAI interoperability with non-R&E Identity Providers in support of international research collaboration | ||
| AARC2-JRA1.3D | Guidelines for AAI interoperability with eIDAS Identity Providers in support of international research collaboration | ||
| AARC2-JRA1.3E | AAI tools & technologies enabling OIDC for international research collaboration | ||
| AARC2-JRA1.4A | Roles, responsibilities and security considerations for VOs | ||
| AARC2-JRA1.4B | Guidelines for combining group membership and role information in multi-AA environments | ||
| AARC2-JRA1.4C | Guidelines for scalable account (de)provisioning of VO members | ||
| AARC2-JRA1.4D | Guidelines for implementing, operating and using VO platforms |