Info Grid 2005 - Tuesday 27th, 13:20 - welcome to identity and rights management theme

13:20

Second theme: Identity and rights management

AAI - the scene

Authentication, Authorization, Infrastructure

Defining and organizing a common framework for identity and rights management administration within and between organizations
for (higher) education, research and their e-resources.

The Vision

Users at one institution can access external resources without needing to be a registered user of the external organization.

Rights and roles can be set in Attribute Release Policy (ARP).

The resource provider collects attributes from the user home
organization WITHOUT KNOWING THE IDENTITY OF THE USER.

lots of advantages, including economic

What is not part of the framework

* What material that may be accessed and by whom
* Payments or payment mechanisms
* Agreements on purchase of material ...