The following resources can be used for training associated with federations. Some of this material was created by REFEDS and some both other resources. Please note the acknowledgements and licenses.
Getting Started
| Resource | Description | Audience | Authors / Licenses |
|---|---|---|---|
High level overview of the value of identity federations.
| Decision Makers | Heather Flanagan for REFEDS. Creative Commons CC BY 3.0. | |
| Business Case for adopting SAML based federations at institutions. | Decision Makers / Project Managers | Curtis and Cartwright for JISC. Unknown license. | |
| Jisc Institutional Preparedness Report | An approach taken by Jisc to assess the readiness of its organisations to adopt federated access. Approach could be reused. | Decision Makers | Curtis and Cartwright for JISC. Unknown license. |
| AAI Training for non-technical staff | Training module developed by Ann Harding and Nicole Harris for staff at GÉANT. | Non-technical / customer facing staff. | Ann Harding and Nicole Harris. GÉANT Project. |
| AARC Federation 101 | Various documents supporting a 101 approach to understanding federations. | Project Managers | AARC project. |
| Federation for Virtual Organisations | Slideset looking at the use cases for federation for researchers and virtual organisations. | Project Managements | Heather Flanagan, NSRC. |
Building a Federation
| Resource | Description | Audience | Authors / Licenses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Federation Policy Template | Template document for federation policy creation. | Federation Managers / Federation Steering | Marina Vermezovic, Mikael Linden, Natalija Radosevic, Peter Schober, Brook Schofield. GÉANT Project. |
| Federation Policy Training | Training associated with federation policy development. | Federation Managers / Federation Steering | Nicole Harris for REFEDS. Creative Commons CC BY 3.0. |
| Metadata Registration Practice Statement | Template document for a federation metadata registration practice statement. | Federation Managers / Federation Steering | Nicole Harris for REFEDS. Creative Commons CC BY 3.0. |
| Constructing federation metadata | No known resources | ||
| Implementing a Federation Resource Registry | No known resources | ||
| eduGAIN Best Practice Guide | Assists federations to produce all the required information for each step in order to streamline the process for both joining federations and the eduGAIN Operations Team. | Federation Managers / Federation Steering | Enabling Users team, GÉANT. |
For IdPs / SPs
| Resource | Description | Audience | Authors / Licenses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery Guide | Guidelines on how to implement the AAI discovery process effectively. | Service Providers (and Identity Providers) | REFEDS. Creative Commons CC BY 3.0. |
| AARC Entity Training | To be announced. |