Trust and Identity Technology Working Group
The Trust and Identity Technology Working Group identifies technologies used by research collaborations, to ensure interoperability now and into the future, for a seamless, secure and globally connected research ecosystem.
Ensuring that researchers can easily collaborate across national research organisations, facilities and services is a challenge. To address this issue, the AAF coordinated a Trust and Identity Technology Working Group. Its purpose is to identify the technology used by research collaborations, to ensure interoperability now and into the future, for a seamless, secure and globally connected research ecosystem.
The AAF is not starting from scratch, we are building on the learnings from the EU’s Authentication and Authorisation for Research Collaborations (AARC) organisation who has created a Blueprint Architecture (AARC BPA) for just this purpose.
The purpose of the AARC BPA is to provide a set of interoperable, architectural building blocks for software architects and technical decision makers, when designing and implementing access management solutions for research collaborations.
In collaboration with fellow National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) funded facilities the T&I TWG has reviewed the Australian context, and considered whether this AARC BPA is appropriate for Australian research. The T&I TWG endorsed the AARC BPA in June 2024.
Key considerations
The framework aims to guide the operational measures to provide research infrastructure and services securely and effectively, and includes technologies which offer:
Key dates
The Policy Working Group kicked off in June 2024, followed by a series of meetings and interviews.