If your institution runs an Identity Provider within a Research and Education Federation, please read this urgent message. The international science community has asked for your help in connecting your researchers andRead More…
REFEDS is issuing the attached Request for Quotations (RFQ) for the provision of secretarial and coordination support for REFEDS. In order to support its work and operations, REFEDS is seeking quotations forRead More…
Every year, REFEDS undertakes a survey of global Federation Operators to get a sense of where we are as a community in supporting federated identity. 2018 was no exception, and the fullRead More…
For anyone interested in privacy and security it’s been difficult in the last couple of days to avoid the congressional hearing and Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony on the Cambridge Analytica data story. InRead More…
The REFEDS Research and Scholarship entity category has a simple purpose – it aims to simplify the burden of releasing attributes to services providers whilst ensuring that attributes are released in a safeRead More…
REFEDS is looking for proposals to support the following workareas in 2017. Further details can be found on the REFEDS 2017 Workplan. Proposals for the following areas are sought: Support for SpecialistRead More…
The Great Identity Debate at the Internet2 Global Summit 2017 saw experts in the identity field debate a fundamental question for our community. The panel was asked to debate for and againstRead More…
by Terry Smith, AAF At the APAN43 meeting at the Habitat Center in New Delia, India the APAN IAM Task Force provided a one day IAM Training event (40+ participants from 10Read More…
REFEDS met from the last time in 2016 on 28th November 2016, kindly hosted by CERN and co-located with the 4th AARC General meeting. As usual, the meeting was focused on reviewingRead More…
Following on from a community consultation, REFEDS is pleased to announce the publication of the Sirtfi Identity Assurance Certification Description v1.0. This forms the final document in the current Sirtfi document suiteRead More…