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Glossary

A#

  • AA: Authentication and Authorisation
  • AAA: Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting
  • AAI: Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure
  • AARC: Authentication and Authorisation for Research and Collaboration
  • API: Application Programming Interface
  • AS: Authorisation Server
  • AUP: Acceptable Use Policy
  • AuthN: Authentication
  • AuthZ: Authorisation

B#

  • (No entries)

C#

  • CoCo: GÉANT data protection Code of Conduct
  • CSIRT: Computer Security Incident Response Team

D#

  • (No entries)

E#

  • EC: European Commission
  • eduGAIN: AAI confederation interconnecting national and community-wide R&E identity federations
  • eduroam: education roaming – International roaming service for users in R&E
  • eID: Electronic Identification
  • EOSC: European Open Science Cloud
  • EU: European Union

F#

  • FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (data principles)
  • FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
  • FIM4R: Federated Identity Management for Research
  • FQDN: Fully Qualified Domain Name

G#

  • GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation
  • GÉANT: The pan-European research and education network
  • GUI: Graphical User Interface

H#

  • HA: High Availability
  • HO: Home Organisation
  • HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
  • HTTPS: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

I#

  • IAM: Identity and Access Management
  • IdM: Identity Management
  • IdP: Identity Provider
  • IP: Internet Protocol

J#

  • (No entries)

K#

  • (No entries)

L#

  • LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

M#

  • MFA: Multi-Factor Authentication

N#

  • NREN: National Research and Education Network

O#

  • OA: Open Access
  • OIDC: OpenID Connect
  • OpenAIRE: Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe

P#

  • PKI: Public Key Infrastructure

Q#

  • (No entries)

R#

  • R&E: Research and Education
  • R&S: Research & Scholarship
  • RAF: REFEDS Assurance Framework
  • REFEDS: Research and Education FEDerations

S#

  • SAML: Security Assertion Markup Language
  • SFA: Single-Factor Authentication
  • Shibboleth: An Internet2 project to investigate technology to support inter-institutional Authentication and Authorisation
  • SIRTFI: Security Incident Response Trust Framework for Federated Identity
  • SP: Service Provider
  • SSO: Single sign-on

T#

  • T&I: Trust and Identity

U#

  • UI: User Interface
  • UMA: User Managed Access
  • URI: Uniform Resource Identifier
  • URL: Uniform Resource Locator
  • URN: Uniform Resource Name

V#

  • VO: Virtual Organisation

W#

  • WebSSO: Web Single Sign-On
  • WISE: Wise Information Security for Collaborating e-Infrastructures

X#

  • XML: Extensible Markup Language

Y#

  • (No entries)

Z#

  • (No entries)