Affiliation means a value of the “eduPersonAffiliation” attribute
asserted by the Organisation for the User.
Client means a service operated by a VerifID customer, that wishes
to verify the User’s Affiliation values.
Organisation means the SAML Identity Provider which is responsible
for authenticating a User, and the source of truth for their identity data.
VerifID Service Operator means the legal entity offering the
VerifID service to a Subscriber through a commercial contract defined outside of this document.
Subscriber means an organisation that subscribes to the VerifID
service and is in good standing with the VerifID Service Operator.
User means a third party who is consuming a public-facing component
of theClient via a web browser.
VerifID means the service and API defined by this document.
Verification refers to the interactive process of authenticating a
User against their Organisation and returning to the Client a result relating to the User’s Affiliation values.