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 141                 InQueue Federation Policy and Configuration Guidelines<br>
 142                 Version 1.0<br />
 143                 June 19, 2003<br />
 144
 145                 <h3>InQueue Federation Policy and Configuration Guidelines</h3>
 146
 147                 <h4>1.  Introduction to InQueue</h4>
 148                 <blockquote><p>
 149                         The InQueue Federation, operated by Internet2, is designed for
 150                         organizations that are becoming familiar with the Shibboleth software
 151                         package and the federated trust model.  InQueue provides the basic
 152                         services needed for a federation using Shibboleth:</p>
 153
 154                         <ul>
 155                                 <li>maintenance and distribution of participating site description and
 156                                 security files;</li>
 157                                 <li>a central WAYF ("where are you from") web site;</li>
 158                                 <li>specification of operational procedures and policies, including
 159                                 user data (attribute) definitions; and</li>
 160                                 <li>example target and origin sites with which to test
 161                                 interoperability.</li>
 162                         </ul>
 163
 164                         <p>Participating in InQueue permits an organization to learn about the
 165                         Shibboleth software via the experience of multi-party federated access,
 166                         while integrating its services into the organization's procedures and
 167                         policies.</p>
 168
 169                         <p>The InQueue federation is specifically <b>not</b> intended to support
 170                         production-level end-user access to protected resources.  Organizations
 171                         operating target sites are strongly discouraged from making sensitive or
 172                         valuable resources available via the Federation.</p>
 173                 </blockquote>
 174
 175                 <h4>2.  InQueue Policies</h4>
 176
 177                 <h4>2.1  Participation</h4>
 178
 179                 <blockquote><p>An organization may join InQueue as an origin, as a
 180                         target, or both.
 181                         Participants are expected to be authorized representatives of
 182                         their organization.  Internet2 reserves the right to make final
 183                         decisions about participation in the Federation.</p>
 184
 185                         <p>Participation in the Federation is limited to the period during which
 186                         an organization is learning about Shibboleth and federated operations.  Upon
 187                         completion of this period, the organization is expected to join a
 188                         Federation (or some other management solution) that meets its long-term
 189                         operational needs.
 190                         </p></blockquote>
 191
 192                         <h4>2.2  Data management</h4>
 193
 194                         <blockquote><p>
 195                                 By participating, origins agree that all attributes sent
 196                                 to targets in the Federation to the best of their knowledge accurately
 197                                 represent information about the authenticated individual accessing the
 198                                 target resource.</p>
 199
 200                                 <p>Targets agree to dispose of all received
 201                                 attributes properly by not mis-using them, aggregating them, or
 202                                 sharing them with other organizations.</p></blockquote>
 203
 204                         <h4>2.3  Security management</h4>
 205
 206                         <blockquote><p>InQueue distributes a set of root certificates for
 207                                 issuers from which server certificates may be obtained to identify
 208                                 InQueue server components.
 209                                 Additionally, sites with certificates not rooted
 210                                 in one of these trusted roots may have these certificates added to the
 211                                 appropriate trust file.  Targets must have a certificate signed by an
 212                                 acceptible CA.  The list of certificate authorities used by
 213                                 InQueue is:</p>
 214                                 <ul type="circle">
 215                                         <li><a href="http://www.verisign.com/">Verisign/RSA Secure Server CA</a></li>
 216                                         <li><a href="http://bossie.doit.wisc.edu/cert/i2server">Internet2
 217                                                 HEPKI Test CA</a></li>
 218                                         <li><a href="http://www.cren.net/crenca/">CREN CA</a></li>
 219                                 </ul>
 220                         </blockquote>
 221
 222                         <h4>2.4  Attributes</h4>
 223                         <blockquote><p>The InQueue
 224                                 Federation specifies a set of attribute definitions to support basic
 225                                 attribute-based authorization.
 226                                 If a Federation member sends or receives an Attribute Assertion
 227                                 containing the InQueue policy uri and referencing one of the listed
 228                                 attributes,
 229                                 the syntax and semantics of the associated attribute value should
 230                                 conform
 231                                 to the definitions specified in the <a href="http://www.educause.edu/eduperson/">EduPerson specification 2002/10</a>
 232                                 </p>
 233
 234                                 <ul type="circle">
 235                                         <li>eduPersonPrincipalName</li>
 236                                         <li>eduPersonEntitlement</li>
 237                                         <li>eduPersonAffiliation (expressed in a slightly different form via
 238                                         a new attribute called eduPersonScopedAffiliation)</li>
 239                                 </ul>
 240                         </blockquote>
 241
 242                         <h4>3.  Joining InQueue</h4>
 243
 244                         <blockquote><p>To join InQueue, origins <a href="mailto:shib-support@internet2.edu?subject=Shib%20Origin%20Site%%0D%20%2020Application"> submit a request to
 245                                         shib-support@internet2.edu</a> containing the following
 246                                 information:</p></blockquote>
 247
 248                         <blockquote>
 249                                 <ul type="circle">
 250                                         <li>Domain Name of the origin site (e.g., Ohio State's is
 251                                         "osu.edu").</li>
 252                                         <li>Complete URL to access the Shibboleth Handle Service at the site.</li>
 253                                         <li>The CN (usually the hostname) of the HS's certificate's subject.
 254                                         This should also be the value of <span class="fixedwidth">edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.hs.
 255                                                 HandleServlet.issuer</span> in <span class="fixedwidth">origin.properties</span>.</li>
 256                                         <li>Any shorthand aliases the WAYF should support for the origin
 257                                         site (e.g., Ohio State, OSU, Buckeyes)</li>
 258                                         <li>Contact names and addresses for technical and administrative
 259                                         issues.</li>
 260                                         <li>The URL of an error page that users selecting this origin from
 261                                         the WAYF may be referred to by targets if Shibboleth
 262                                         malfunctions. (optional)</li>
 263                                         <li>If the HS's certificate is not issueed by one of the root CAs
 264                                         used
 265                                         by InQueue, then it must be submitted in Base64-encoded DER (aka
 266                                         "PEM") format.</li>
 267                         </ul></blockquote>
 268
 269                         <blockquote><p>To join InQueue, targets must <a href="mailto:shib-support@internet2.edu?subject=Shib%20Target%20Site%%0D%20%2020Application"> submit a basic application to
 270                                         shib-support@internet2.edu</a> containing the following
 271                                 information:</p></blockquote>
 272
 273                         <blockquote>
 274                                 <ul type="circle">
 275                                         <li>The name of the organization</li>
 276                                         <li>Contact names and addresses for both administrative and
 277                                         technical purposes</li>
 278                                 </ul>
 279                         </blockquote>
 280
 281                         <h4>4.  Configuration for Using InQueue</h4>
 282
 283                         <blockquote><p>Once your site is accepted into and added to InQueue,
 284                                 the following configuration parameters must be entered to ensure
 285                                 interoperability and compliance with federation guidelines.  Consult
 286                                 the Shibboleth Deploy Guides for further information on these fields
 287                                 and on <span class="fixedwidth">origin.properties</span> and <span class="fixedwidth">shibboleth.ini</span>.</p></blockquote>
 288
 289                         <blockquote><h5>4.a. Origins:</h5>
 290
 291                                 <dl><dd class="attribute"><span class="fixedwidth">edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.hs.HandleServlet.siteName</span>
 292                                         </dd><dd class="value"><p>Must be populated with a URI that will
 293                                         be assigned by InQueue when you are accepted into the
 294                                         federation.</p></dd><dd class="attribute"><span class="fixedwidth">edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.audiences</span>
 295                                         </dd><dd class="value"><p>This field must contain InQueue's <span class="fixedwidth">urn:mace:inqueue</span> URI, and may contain other federation URIs as well.</p></dd></dl>
 296                                 </blockquote>
 297
 298                                 <blockquote><h5>4.b. Targets:</h5>
 299
 300                                         <dl><dd class="attribute"><span class="fixedwidth">wayfURL</span>
 301                                                 </dd><dd class="value"><p>This field must be set to InQueue's simple WAYF at <span class="fixedwidth">https://wayf.internet2.edu/InQueue/WAYF</span>.</p></dd><dd class="attribute"><span class="fixedwidth">[policies]</span>
 302                                                 </dd><dd class="value"><p>This section must contain <span class="fixedwidth">InQueue = urn:mace:inqueue</span>, and may
 303                                                 contain other federation name/value pairs as well.</p></dd>
 304                                         </dl>
 305                                 </blockquote>
 306
 307                                 <blockquote><h5>4.b.i. Refreshing Federation Metadata:</h5>
 308                                         <p>Once your target site is accepted into the InQueue federation, it is necessary that you periodically
 309                                         update the target's federation metadata.  This metadata includes information used to identify and authenticate
 310                                         InQueue sites.</p>
 311
 312                                         <p>InQueue's metadata is digitally signed, so the first step is to obtain the InQueue signing certificate.
 313                                         It can be downloaded from <span class="fixedwidth">http://wayf.internet2.edu/InQueue/internet2.pem
 314                                         </span> and has a fingerprint of:</p>
 315                                         <p><span class="fixedwidth">b4 42 6c 1e 8b 7d 8e b3 68 03 00 e4 c4 57 dd 74 89 f8 9a 80</span>.</p>
 316
 317                                         <p>The following commands can be used to obtain the federation's metadata:</p>
 318                                         <p><span class="fixedwidth"> $ cd /opt/shibboleth/etc/shibboleth</span></p>
 319                                         <p><span class="fixedwidth">$ ../../bin/siterefresh --url http://wayf.internet2.edu/InQueue/sites.xml
 320                                                 --out sites.xml --cert internet2.pem</span></p>
 321                                                 <p><span class="fixedwidth">$ ../../bin/siterefresh --url http://wayf.internet2.edu/InQueue/trust.xml
 322                                                         --out trust.xml --cert internet2.pem</span></p>
 323                                 </blockquote>
 324
 325                                 <h4>5.  Testing</h4>
 326                                 <blockquote><p>A <a href="https://wayf.internet2.edu/shibboleth/sample.jsp">sample shibboleth target</a>
 327                                         is available for testing newly installed origin sites.  New targets can make use of a sample origin,
 328                                         which is listed as "Example State University" on the InQueue WAYF ( Username: demo / Password: demo ).</p></blockquote>
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