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The ‘glue’ that binds IAM services together is an Entity Registry. Such a Registry facilitates the creation, maintenance, and distribution of person and other subject / entity information across TIER components and other elements of the institutional IT landscape. It must be capable of receiving, deduplicating, resolving collisions and otherwise grooming this information from authoritative sources and disseminating canonical person and other entity information to downstream services as a data hub or replication source.
The TIER Entity Registry Phase I Working Group is tasked with identifying and documenting the minimum viable requirements for a TIER Registry component and making recommendations to the TIER Community Architecture Planning and Engagement (CAPE) group about the criteria for the adoption of an official TIER Registry component. This set of recommendations will then be used to guide the relevant API, development and packaging work.
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- TIER Entity Registry Wiki Home Page
- TIER Working Groups Home
- TIER Data Structures and APIs Working Group
- Background information on TIER, the Internet2 initiative on Trust and Identity in Education and Research