Australian Access Federation (AAF) Project


The Australian Access Federation (AAF), with its policy framework and infrastructure, will facilitate trusted electronic communications and collaboration within and between higher education and research institutions both locally and internationally as well as with other organizations. The project will build on the existing DEST funded work in the first phase of the e-Security Framework project (based at the University of Queensland) and the MAMS (Meta Access Management System project, based at Macquarie University).

This Project involves three linked components:

Part 1: The development of overarching governance and policies for the whole Trust Federation (these are independent of delivery technologies)

Part 2: The development of specific policies, technical implementation and rollout of PKI for a Trust Federation; and

Part 3: The development of specific policies, technical implementation and rollout of Shibboleth for a Trust Federation.

The Project Objectives page provides more details on these components.

The AAF Project Team provides DIISR with a Project Summary Progress Report half yearly.

The AAF project has developed an animation to serve as an introduction to the concept of federated access management use within the Australian Access Federation. The animation    runtime is 5 min 43 sec. If you would like to view the animation in a different format or a larger (better quality) version, please contact the AAF Project Manager on aaf@aaf.edu.au.

The AAF Project Team has developed a discussion paper proposing the Levels of Assurance to be supported in the AAF. To provide your feedback please review the AAF LOA Proposal.