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The prime purpose of the ACOnet OpenIDP is to allow eduID.at Service Providers to offer their resource to their whole intended community, whether or not all members of that community already have access to are affiliated with an institution that operates a SAML Identity Provider within eduID.at. This obviates the need for service owners to also implement local or alternative authentication methods within their resource (which usually lead to password management and "password/username/email address forgotten" support issues at the service), in addition to federated access via SAML. As such the ACOnet OpenIDP is part of the eduID.at Metadata, together with all other Identity Providers within eduID.at.

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