Current AAI Documents

Documents Overview

AAI Agreements

AAI Policies & Specifications

AAI Maturity Scan & BCP

Earlier AAI Documents

Technical Documents: Install & Configure

Identity Providers

Service Providers

HOWTO

Certificates

Directory with Technical Documents

AAI Agreements

With the new AAI legal framework valid since 2012, there is only an agreement for prospect SWITCHaai Federation Partners.

For organizations part of the SWITCH Community, AAI is one of the basic services of SWITCH and does not require any further agreement.
How to join SWITCHaai for the SWITCH Community

SWITCHaai Federation Partner Agreement

An organization interested to join SWITCHaai as Federation Partner has to sign the SWITCHaai Federation Partner Agreement.

How to join as SWITCHaai Federation Partner

AAI Polices and Specification Documents

SWITCHaai Service Description

The SWITCHaai Service Description is the core of the new AAI legal framework, which is in place since 2012. The SWITCHaai Federation Policy is chapter 3 of this Service Description.

Certificate Acceptance Policy

The Certificate Acceptance Policy defines which certificates are accepted for use within SWITCHaai.

More about certificate acceptance policy

VHO Policy

The VHO Policy specifies the Virtual Home Organization (VHO).
AAI VHO Policy [PDF, 11 pages]

AAI Attribute Specification

The document "AAI Attribute Specification" sets the standard for attributes used in the SWITCHaai federation.
The list of AAI attributes with their implementation status is available on the website.
The corresponding LDAP schema files swissedu.schema and eduperson.schema might be of use to AAI Home Organizations implementing this specification.
AAI Attribute Specification [PDF, 49 pages]

AAI related Legal Templates

IdP Operators should consult 'The Standard Data Protection Clause' and further legal templates when preparing or reviewing their data protection and user regulations.

All AAI related legal templates

AAI Maturity Scan & Best Current Practices for SWITCHaai service operations

AAI Maturity Scan

SWITCH devised a questionnaire to perform an AAI Maturity Scan [PDF, 9 pages] whose purpose is to enable each Home Organization of the SWITCHaai federation to assess their AAI maturity level. The report below describes the results of this AAI Maturity Scan in which nine Home Organizations answered the questionnaire.
AAI Maturity Scan - Final Report, 2012 [PDF, 13 pages]

Best Current Practices for SWITCHaai service operations

Best current practices for operating a SWITCHaai Identity or Service Provider