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Joining Haka federation

Eligible for Haka membership are

  • universities and polytechnics
  • state-owned and other publicly funded research institutions
  • other organizations supporting research and teaching

Organizations not included in the list are eligible to join Haka federation as partners and bring their services to Haka federation users.

Joining is subject to compatibility with the intended use of Haka federation and fulfilling the requirements in the Haka service agreement and its appendices.

Haka Service Agreements were renewed for all Haka federation members and partners during 2019. Related FAQ can be found here in Haka wiki pages.

Haka Service Agreement after 15th of November 2019 for foreign companies

Haka Service Agreement after 15th of November 2019 for Finnish companies

  • Check out the instructions for concluding a partner agreement
  • Partner's electronic joining form
    • The electronic joining form is filled out online by the administrative Haka contact person
    • In addition to the membership form, the actual member and partner membership agreement must be signed. The contract will be sent for signature after the partner application has been approved.

  • According to the agreement, the partners must follow the up-to-date Code of Conduct. The latest version of GÉANT's Data Protection Code of Conduct can be found at https://wiki.refeds.org/display/CODE/Code+of+Conduct+2.0

Fees

  • federation members: collected with Funet fees

  • federation partners:

    • application fee 1000€, annual partner fee 1000€.

    • free of charge on a condition that a federation member purchases a service from the partner where Haka authentication is used

Service registration (SP-server)

  1. Install the necessary services (Shibboleth Service Provider 2 or compatible)

  2. Fill in the registration request at Haka Resource Registry.
  3. Use test service to verify Haka-compatibility
  4. Ask Haka operator (CSC) to move SP from test federation to real production metadata

  5. Administrative contact verifies that

    • the service is in line with intended use of the federation

    • the user attributes the service requests are relevant to providing the service

  6. The administrative contact approves/rejects the registration to CSC

  7. Registration reception is confirmed to organization's administrative contact.

  8. CSC adds the information to federation's metadata.

  9. In case of changes, Resource Registry can be used for updating the information. Please contact Haka team in advance if you wish that some updates should take place in certain timescale.

Home organization registration (IdP-server)

  1. Install the necessary services (Shibboleth Identity Provider 2 or compatible).

  2. Publish a document of the organizational identity management, which Shibboleth Identity Provider is built on (document template).

  3. Create a request to register a home organization to Haka federation (at Haka Resource Registry)

  4. CSC forwards your request to your organization's Haka administrative contact, who then approves or rejects the IdP registration.

  5. The administrative is contacted for user management document and federation member requirement review.

  6. CSC adds the information to federation metadata.

  7. In case of changes, Resource Registry can be used for updating the information. Please contact Haka team in advance if you wish that some updates should take place in certain timescale.