About CARSI
CARSI, the abbreviation of CERNET Authentication and Resource Sharing Infrastructure, is an inter-institutional authentication and authorization project initiated by Peking University. The project has been sponsored by China Next Generation Internet Program (CNGI), National High-tech R&D Program of China (863 Program) and National Program on Key Basic Research Project (973 Program).
CARSI aims to build an authentication and authorization infrastructure for CERNET universities and users so that web resources owned by a single university or other institutions can be shared across CERNET. The corner stone for this cross-domain authentication and authorization infrastructure is the unified identity management systems and web resources already deployed in member universities, as well as web resources provided by related institutions.
About CERNET Federation
As part of CARSI project, CERNET Federation is launched for unified authentication and resource sharing in CERNET and promoting resource sharing among various universities by means of middleware for cross-domain unified authentication and authorization. CERNET Federation is based on the Shibboleth Project of Internet2. To facilitate resource sharing among different institutions, in the institution where a user belongs to, an Identity Provider (IdP) should be deployed to authenticate the user and provide user information upon requests. In the institution which provides shared resources, a Service Provider (SP) should be deployed to enforce access control to those resources. For the convenience of cross-domain resource sharing, a portal for cross-domain 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 of his own institution.
Current Progress
Until now, CERNET Federation is already with 35 institutions involved, including 31 universities and 4 Federation Partners:
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List of Universities:
- Beihang University
- Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
- Central South University
- Chongqing University
- Dalian University of Technology
- Fudan University
- Harbin Institute of Technology
- Hebei Normal University
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- Jilin University
- Lanzhou University
- Liaoning University
- Northeastern University
- Ocean University of China
- Peking University
- Pingdingshan University
- Shandong University
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Shenzhen University
- South China University of Technology
- Tianjin University
- Tongji University
- Tsinghua University
- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
- University of International Business and Economics
- University of Science and Technology Beijing
- University of Science and Technology of China
- Xiamen University
- Xi'an Jiaotong University
- Zhejiang University
- Zhengzhou University
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Federation Partners:
- CERNET New Concept Corp.
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (IEEE Xplore Digital Library)
- International Network for a Digital Cultural Heritage e-Infrastructure (INDICATE)
- Thomson Reuters (ISI Web of Knowledge)
We invite all institutions within or related to China's higher education and research community to join CERNET Federation.
- As an Identity Provider to enable users to access shared resources provided by other universities or Federation Partners;
- As a Service Provider to provide web resources for CERNET users.
Click here to visit portal of CERNET Federation.
Click here to check out recent news and events about CERNET Federation.
Last Update: Nov 17, 2011