Markus, hello.
On 2006 Jul 10 , at 13.59, Markus Dolensky wrote:
> Just for your information: ESO is in the process of becoming a
> Registration Authority for its staff members and is adopting the
> academic policy of the global IGTF (www.gridpma.org) through its
> European branch EUGridPMA. This implies use of X.509 certificates
> which appears to be in line with the authorization packages that
> you evaluated.
Thanks for this link -- that's useful to know.
I think that a realistic authorisation mechanism would have to be able to talk to the X.509 world. But not exclusively: in some cases it would be necessary to understand SAML assertions from Shibboleth, and probably interact with LDAP servers, too.
See you,
Norman
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