Technical Recommendations for Participants

UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research

Technical Recommendations for Participants

Version 1.5
6 October 2014

Table of Contents

• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Keeping Up To Date
  • 1.2 Document Status
  • 1.3 Changes in this Edition
  • 1.4 Future Directions
• 2 Software
  • 2.1 Choice of Software
• 3 SAML 1.1 Authentication Request and Response Profiles
  • 3.1 Recommended Authentication Request Profile
  • 3.2 Recommended Authentication Response Profiles
  • 3.3 Future Directions
• 4 Metadata
  • 4.1 Production Metadata Aggregate
  • 4.2 Metadata Refresh
  • 4.3 Metadata Signature Verification
  • 4.4 Federation URI
  • 4.5 Future Directions
• 5 Digital Certificates
  • 5.1 Certificate Roles in the UK Federation
  • 5.2 Recovery from Key Compromise
• 6 Discovery
  • 6.1 Avoiding Discovery: Institutional Portals
  • 6.2 Discovery by the Service Provider
  • 6.3 Federation Central Discovery Service
• 7 Attribute Usage
  • 7.1 Core Attributes
  • 7.2 Attributes, Privacy and Data Protection
  • 7.3 Subsidiary Attributes
  • 7.4 Sources of Additional Attributes
  • 7.5 Custom Attributes
  • 7.6 Working Without Attributes
  • 7.7 Future Directions
• 8 References

Resources

• Federation Site

Documents

• Current TRP (1.5)
• Current FTS (1.5)
• Current MDRPS (20130902)