EOSC-Life Access and User Management System for Life Science – the blueprint update

This deliverable is the updated blueprint of the Life Science AAI, a common authentication and authorisation service for the European life science research infrastructures. The Life Science AAI provides a way to coordinate the way how user identity and access is managed in research services and data in the (community-specific) federated Infrastructure. The service is managed by the life sciences community and operated by the e-infrastructures, including GEANT and EGI.

This deliverable is an update to the deliverable D5.1 “Access and User Management System for Life Science – the blueprint” [LIND19] that laid the ground for the production deployment with einfrastructures. In this deliverable and its appendices, only those sections of D5.1 are updated where the requirements have changed or become more clear, while the rest of the document remains unchanged. This deliverable can be read as an independent document, without reading D5.1 first.

This deliverable and its appendices first introduces the technical and non-technical requirements for the AAI service, including the components operated by the e-infrastructures, and further clarifies how that relates to and integrates to the AAI service components operated by the life sciences research infrastructures. Relevant external work, including the EOSC AAI, is then introduced. A migration plan for the existing AAI services, including BBMRI-ERIC AAI, ELIXIR AAI and ARIA, is presented. Finally, the deliverable provides an overview of Life Science AAI’s potential relying services within the EOSC-Life project and beyond.