What is the CUCKOO Project?
The aim of the project is to research implement/demonstrate Shibboleth Virtual Organisations (VO’s) and on-line collaboration tools. Building on and incorporating work already done, such as attribute release policies mapping (ShARPE) and MyVOCS. The project will research into how Shibboleth 2.0 will affect these tools and solutions. Within Virtual Organisation creating, managing, and supporting groups can be challenging. Open source toolkit such as Grouper is designed to function as the core element of a common infrastructure for managing group information across integrated applications and repositories. The project will research and report on these authorisation and service provisioning decisions, issues such as allowing portals to personalise content and provide role information to applications.
The project will have a number of key objectives:
- Review VO tools and concepts in place by other projects and catalogue the relevant data and findings of these projects, such as ShARPE’s whose aim was to manage the creation and maintenance of user's attributes by Attribute Release Policy (ARP) mechanism bolted on to Shibboleth.
- Investigate user privacy which is vital in the Identity Provider (IdP) and gaining resources on the Service Provider (SP). Within the HE-FE environment and how the mapping of attributes from different schemas, there problematic and complexity and will SAML 2.0 overcome these issues.
- Review the selection of Virtual Organisation Tools and if there is a single tool or site that can satisfy all requirements and maintain the quality of collaboration. Will users suffers and collaborations be hampered if the wrong tools are selected.
- Highlight the difficult problems of tool selection, identity management and access control in both Shibboleth 1.3 and Shibboleth 2.0.
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