Documentation for Service Providers

SURFconext is the service for federated identity management for higher education and research in the Netherlands.  It handles authentication of users and exchange of group information on a central level in the Netherlands

By connecting your service to SURFconext once, students, faculty, and staff of all universities and research institutes in the Netherlands can easily be given access using the account of their home institution.  There is no more need to store passwords locally in your service.  

Furthermore, SURFconext facilitates exchange of group information to all connected services.  Pre-defined groups (such as a student team working on a specific course) or ad-hoc collaborations (e.g., a number of researches working together on a paper) are defined in a central system, from which services can fetch them to facilitate collaboration for these groups.

On these pages, we will give an overview of  the technical capabilities of the SURFconext platform and explain the procedures and technology required to connect your service to SURFconext.

This guide consist of the following parts:

In order to connect a service to SURFconext a number of steps have to be taken. A test connection can be established before any agreement is in place. For this purpose we provide a dedicated test environment. The first section below shows how to connect your service to this test environment. Before your service can be connected to the SURFconext production environment, a legal agreement has to be established. The second section below links to the conditions that are applicable to service providers. In addition, it provides the entries to establish a partnership with SURFmarket for reselling of your service. To reduce the lead time, we advise you to approach the technical and legal steps as a parallel process.

To get conexted please read the instructions below and/or contact info@surfconext.nl

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