About CARSI
CARSI(Cernet Authentication and Resource Sharing Infrastructure) at Peking University is a one-year project sponsored by CNGI, China Next Generation Infrastructure Plan and a three-year project sponsored by Hi-tech Research and Development Program of China, 863 program, started from Dec, 2006. The project aims to build an authentication and authorization infrastructure for CERNET universities and users so that existed web resources can be shared in and beyond CERNET. The building block for this inter-institutional authentication and authorization infrastructure is the unified identity management systems already deployed in candidate universities.
About CARSI-Fed/CERNET-Fed
As part of CARSI project, CARSI-Fed/CERNET-Fed is launched for unified authentication and resource sharing in China's education and research field and promoting resource sharing among various institutions through the use of middleware for inter-institutional unified authentication and authorization. CARSI-Fed/CERNET-Fed is built upon the technologies by Internet2's Shibboleth Project. To facilitate the resource sharing among different institutions, in the institution where the user belongs, an Identity Provider (IdP) should be set up to authenticate the user and provide user information upon request. And in the institution which provides shared resources, and Service Provider (SP) should be set up to enforce access control to those resources. To further promote inter-institutional resource sharing, the Portal for Inter-Institutional Resource Sharing has been set up. A user is able to access shared resources after logging in to the portal with the username and password within his own institution.
Current Progress
Now CARSI-Fed/CERNET-Fed is still in pilot stage, now with 6 institutions involved, including:
- Peking University
- Tsinghua University
- Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
- South China University of Technology
- RITT
We invite all institutions within or related to China's education and research field to join CARSI-Fed/CERNET-Fed
- As Identity Provider to enable users within those institutions to access shared resources from other institutions;
- As Service Provider to provide resources for users in other institutions.