SKA data (re)processing, analysis and visualization will be delivered by the implementation of a worldwide network of SKA Regional Centres, which will require seamless access to a distributed web of research objects (datasets, applications, publications, computing resources etc.) provided via federated service management processes and tools for seamless delivery of end-to-end services. The SKA community-specific services offered by the SRCs, will have to integrate with generic capabilities offered by external providers, like identity provisioning offered by the end-user home organizations and generic computing and data management capabilities operated by the national e- Infrastructures supporting the SKA users.

Work Package 6 is providing recommendations and defining best practices on how to:

• Organize federated service management within the ESDC and across multiple SRCs to address the management of the SKA community-specific services.
• Federate the ESDC services with existing e-Infrastructure federated services (Identity Provisioning, Authentication and Authorization, tools for federated service management) to ensure interoperability between community and generic e-Infrastructure services.
• Collect SKA and e-Infrastructures requirements to federate and eventually enhance existing federation services.

This WP will help to establish interoperability between existing e-Infrastructure AAI services, and between management processes and tools adopted by the SKA-relevant e-Infrastructures (see figure above). This activity is being carried out in collaboration with other regions of the world to ensure the federated operations model, and the supporting processes and tools can interoperate with e-Infrastructures outside Europe: CADC (The Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC) the Canadian Advanced Network for Astronomical Research (CANFAR). It will collaborate with CSIR Meraka Institute (South Africa) and similar collaborations will be established with Australia.