IDM.nrw - Federated Identity Management.nrw
The IDM.nrw (opens in new tab) office originated from the project of the same name at Digital University NRW (opens in new tab) (DH.NRW).
The project aims to implement federated identity management (FIDM), i.e. a network of the local IDM systems of the institutions in North Rhine-Westphalia. This should enable cross-university services to use a single digital identity so that university members can access these services as easily as possible via their own home account.
For this purpose, an NRW sub-federation was founded within the DFN-AAI (opens in new tab) in order to significantly simplify the exchange of technical information between ServiceProviders and IdentityProviders using NRW standards. IdentityProviders generally offer the defined standard attributes (opens in new tab) to the ServiceProviders. If rights management is necessary, the IdentityProviders provide roles in the defined IDM.nrw format. In return, ServiceProviders offer the users of the service-using universities the opportunity to access their service directly with these NRW standards.
This makes DH.nrw services accessible and usable for all institutions.
Further information on the project and the defined standards can be found in the project wiki (opens in new tab).
