Federation Technical Specifications

UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research

Federation Technical Specifications

Version 1.6
26 July 2021

Table of Contents

• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Keeping Up To Date
  • 1.2 Document Status
  • 1.3 Notation
  • 1.4 Changes in this Edition
• 2 Trust Fabric
  • 2.1 Verifying Entity Credentials
• 3 Metadata Usage and Extensions
  • 3.1 Local and Imported Metadata
  • 3.2 Registration and Publication Extension
  • 3.3 Login and Discovery User Interface Extensions
  • 3.4 SAML 1 Support
  • 3.5 SAML 2.0 Metadata Extensions for Shibboleth
  • 3.6 UK Federation Label Namespace
  • 3.7 SDSS Federation WAYF Namespace
  • 3.8 <EntityDescriptor> Element
  • 3.9 <Organization> Element
  • 3.10 <KeyDescriptor> Element
• 4 Metadata Publication Service
  • 4.1 Service Implementation
  • 4.2 Metadata Aggregate Publication
  • 4.3 Metadata Query Publication
  • 4.4 Support for Conditional GET
  • 4.5 Support for Compression
• 5 Central Discovery Service
  • 5.1 Service Implementation
  • 5.2 Service Interface
• 6 SAML V2.0 Browser SSO Implementation Profile
• 7 SAML V2.0 Browser SSO Deployment Profile
  • 7.1 Metadata and Trust Management
  • 7.2 Attributes
  • 7.3 Authentication Requests
  • 7.4 Responses
• 8 References

Documents

• Current TRP (1.6)
• Current FTS (1.6)
• Current MDRPS (20130902)

Resources

• Federation Site
• About This Site