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Grid federation (WLCG)

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descriptionHub: distributed authorization for the LHC computing grid.
tagsgrid, wlcg

Aug 12, 20261 min read

Grid federation (WLCG)

The scientific side cannot be centralized: hundreds of institutions share compute and storage. wlcg-iam issues tokens under the wlcg-token-profile, on the model of vo-transitive-trust, with permissions expressed as capability-scopes and safety resting on token-lifetimes instead of revocation. How it got here: x509-to-tokens.


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  • The AARC framework
  • Capability-based authorization
  • Sirtfi — federated incident response
  • Token lifetimes instead of revocation
  • VO-centred transitive trust
  • WLCG IAM
  • WLCG token profile v1.0 (2019)
  • The WLCG Common JWT Profile
  • Decision: from X.509 proxies to tokens
  • IT Governance and Identity Architecture (CERN)

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