FDO Infrastructure

The FDO Model is on purpose simple as indicated above. The basic FDO infrastructure therefore only includes a few crucial components which at the end should be managed in a distributed manner by responsible and accountable service providers: a PID registry, to an FDO profile registry specified by the FDO Forum, and a registry for kernel attributes that contain the minimal mandatory attributes defined by the FDO Forum. The testbed will also require a registry of repositories that are participating in the testbed. This simple core infrastructure needs to be set up such that

• everyone interested should be able to use it
• the user interfaces are simple
• it can be easily deployed at other centres to come to a distributed system
• there is at least one FDO repository that can be used by interested people
• there should be a portal showing the set of FDOs available in the domain

It should be noted that the PID registry system is managed by a Swiss Foundation (DONA) and has been running for about 25 years and that other registries have been developed partly under EOSC and NFDI projects.