Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure
Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure (AAI) refers to a service and a procedure to enable members of different institutions to access protected information that is distributed on different web servers. Means Authentication -and- Authorization -Infrastructure is checked whether a person is authorized to access a resource, wherein the test is not due to a central register, but at the respective home organization of the person who wishes to access the resource.
In Switzerland , the SWITCH Foundation is developing a Shibboleth -based AAI system that helps Swiss universities in particular to make their e-learning offerings accessible to students beyond their own institutions. Based on the success of SWITCHaai, other countries are following with their own AAI projects.
Web links
- SWITCHaai , Switzerland
- DFN-AAI , Germany
- DK-AAI , Denmark
- AAI at the Catholic University of Leuven , Belgium
- List of other Shibboleth-based federations on the Internet2 -Wiki.