​​User Experience

eduPKI enables trust establishment in GÉANT services. Trust promotes users’ reliance on a service and facilitates confidence in the security and integrity of GÉANT services.

• Support other project services in defining their security requirements.

• Provide them with digital certificates by federating existing NRENs certificates services.

• Ensures efficiency, as trust is dealt by a group of experts.

• Facilitates implementation of a cohesive technical and policy infrastructure.

• Avoids duplication of effort in different activities.

• Eases the transition from the current project to the next one.

• Consequently improves the end-users' experience.

• Business case approved, May 2010.

• Governance and procedures in place, September 2010.
  

• Cooperation with eduroam resulted in the creation of an eduroam trust profile.

• Cooperation with SA2 resulted in the creation of an Multidomain Network Service profile.

• Pilot phase started in summer 2010, completed February 2011.

• Service started 1 March 2011.​