README - Version 2 of Federation Registry

• (c) Australian Access Federation
• Author: Bradley Beddoes, Australian Access Federation
• Project License: Apache 2.0, utilised software per their licensing, see NOTICE for more.
• See more details and documentation at http://wiki.aaf.edu.au/federationregistry/

Overview

The Federation Registry project provides an extensible, open web application that provides a central point of registration, management and reporting for identity and service providers participating in a standards compliant SAML 2 identity federation.

Key Features

• A focus on Organisations as the key building block for the federation
• Management for all aspects of SAML 2 compliant Identity and Service Providers
• SAML 2.x compliant metadata generation
• Additional assistance for Shibboleth IDP and SP administrators including automated Attribute Filter generation
• Public registration for Organisations, Identity Providers and Service Providers that are new to the federation
• A personalised dashboard view of the federation for all users
• A cross browser (including mobile devices) HTML5 compliant user interface which can be branded for deploying organisations.
• Multilingual capable
• A fully customisable workflow engine to handle registrations and other critical federation changes
• In-depth reporting to gain insight to the workings of the entire federation
• Federation integrated, automatically provisioned user accounts with fine grained access control

License Notice

This product includes software developed at Highcharts - http://www.highcharts.com

This is used by the AAF under the Highcharts 'Non-commercial - Free' license defined by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ as the Australian Access Federation Inc is both a not for profit and Australian University sector organisation. Other organisations deploying Federation Registry must decide how licensing for Highcharts applies to them at http://shop.highsoft.com/highcharts.html and obtain any licenses that are necessary.