The Australian Access Federation (AAF) provides a framework and support infrastructure to facilitate trusted electronic communications and collaboration within and between universities and research institutions in Australia and overseas. The AAF uses cutting edge technologies to provide a range of automatic identification services, which will allow authentication of people (researchers, teachers and students) and resources (servers, services, networks, instruments and data). It enables resource owners to identify and authorise a researcher to access online resources, such as computer facilities, data and other research infrastructure, at their home institution, at other Australian institutions, and around the world.

The Australian Access Federation provides the means of allowing a participating institution and/or a service provider to trust the information it receives from another participating institution. This will provide seamless access to resources and secure communication to support collaboration between users.

Similar federations are emerging in the international community as institutions around the world seek a common approach for managing and sharing resources. A key driver for the AAF is to reduce the risk of accidental or malicious exposure of data and other resources in a collaborative environment.

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The UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research is supported by JISC and Becta, and operated by JANET(UK), the federation provides a single solution to access online resources and services for education and research.

Organisations interested in joining the federation should consider the many benefits it has to offer. They may wish to join as an Identity Provider (IdP) (eg. a university or local authority), or as a Service Provider (SP), (eg. a publisher or content provider). In some cases, organisations may wish to join as both.

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