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Working Group ChairChairs: Keith Hazelton
Key Deliverables for next Month (ie, due end of February):
- define our recommended REST-style APIs for the three most heavily used Group Management functions,
- identify and specify APIs for the most basic Entity Registry functions,
- formulate an initial set of generic guidelines for designing RESTful APIs in the TIER-related identity and access management space
Topical Subgroups
Ignoring Unrecognized Schema Fragments in a Received Resource Representation
- Identity Registry APIs and Data Structures
, Internet2, Ethan Kromhout, UNC Chapel Hill
Charter for Data Structures and APIs Working Group (Original Charter from TIER Initiative)
Inventory of TIER APIs
- Credential Management (openapi)
- Used to manage credentials for a Person or Entity
- Group Registry (openapi)
- Used for Group and Group Member related requests
- SCIM (+ extensions?)
- ID Match (openapi)
- Used by Registry or SORs to obtain a Reference ID based on (SOR) attributes
- Person Registry (openapi)
- Used for Person (and maybe other Entity?) related API requests
- SCIM (+ extensions)
- Subscriber Message Notification (openapi)
- Used to send update notifications to downstream systems
Schema work items
- Under the API-Schema organization on Internet2 Enterprise Github
Older items
Jim Fox on Messaging at U Dub
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Rob Carter thoughts on fine-grained authZ on APIs for data access <= = relates to issues discussed on the 11 December 2015 call
Background information on TIER, Internet2 initiative on Trust and Identity in Education and Research
- Authology Vault Service Reference – schema used for Clemson University Vault; Authology Vault Service is an identity management object store based on Authology Object Store Service
- Internet2 Middleware IAM Diagram from 2006.
- Accomplishments and Plans from the TIER API and Registries Working Groups (blog January 2017)
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