In March, the 2025 REFEDS MFA Profile Working Group convened weekly to address emerging requirements for robust, phishing-resistant authentication mechanisms across the Research and Education (R&E) community. The Working Group aims toRead More…
This was originally posted on the GÉANT Connect website and is reposted here. CONNECT44 contained an article summarizing 20 years of Federated Identity Management in the GÉANT community. This article was originallyRead More…
Background One of the biggest problems faced in the Identity Federation ecosystem is support for the safe and appropriate release of user data to services in the form of attributes. Organisations haveRead More…
I’ve had a few questions about the REFEDS Consultation process so thought it would be useful to explain a little for those that are new or indeed for those who have beenRead More…
REFEDS held its 43rd meeting on 30th September 2021 as an early kick-off to the InCommon CAMP / ACAMP week. After much reminiscing and working out that we would have been visitingRead More…
Background Since 2014, the GN4 project has been looking to revise the existing GÉANT Code of Conduct (CoCo) for Service Providers using identity federations. This has become necessary for range of reasons:Read More…
The REFEDS Community is happy to announce the publication of the Anonymous Authorization and Pseudonymous Authorization Entity Categories. The Categories were developed under the auspices of SeamlessAccess who approached REFEDS to hostRead More…
REFEDS has published it’s End of Year Report for 2020. Like many of our sister organisations, 2020 proved a disruptive year for REFEDS and led a series of our normal activities toRead More…
In order to support its work and operations, REFEDS is seeking quotations for an upgrade to the REFEDS MET tool. This is expected to be a one-off piece of work to bringRead More…
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…