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Basically, myVocs is a SAMLIdPProxy, a bridge between a federation of Shibboleth IdPs and a federation of Shibboleth SPs:

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Using myVocs, the SPs (called VO SPs) may be aggregated into virtual organizations (VOs). We think of VOs as people, and the aggregated SPs as a federated set of distributed applications. It is an important feature of myVocs that a single VO SP may serve multiple VOs.

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In myVocs, a VO includes of a set of tools or applications protected by VO SPs mutually trusted by a VO !IdP. The following diagram illustrates the relationship among the various myVocs components:

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Here is an outline of a typical myVocs flow for webapps:

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