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• Technical analysis
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User registries available for federated access

Summary

“Missing of a common way to make available different user registries for federated access.”

Classification

Category	User Management
Identifier	ISSUE-UM-004
Type of recommended activity	Further Investigation about the subject
Organisations addressed	GMES CDS Technical Team, INSPIRE Drafting Team, GEOSS Architecture and Data Management.

Additional information

Context	GMES, INSPIRE and GEOSS initiatives have to define a common way to make available different user registries for federated access.
Rationale	Agreement should be reached; would this be through an authentication service at each initiative which would respond with the encrypted and signed SAML token or would there be agreement to link the registries in some other way.
Dependencies	None
Further background information	Technology Watch Report - Data Access and Processing [PDF] Comparative analysis report (version 2) [PDF] Comparative Analysis Report (version 2) - Annex Recommendations [PDF]
Main discussion points	None
Roadmap	Consider a recommendation to GMES, INSPIRE and GEOSS initiatives to define a common way to make available different user registries for federated access.