Is This Your Digital Life?
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…
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Reviewing Research and Scholarship
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 Contracts 2017
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
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…
News from APAN43
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…
Rounding off a Year of REFEDS in Geneva
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…
REFEDS announces final Sirtfi documentation
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…
Stepping-Up Our Entities: REFEDS@TechEx2016
The second panel at the REFEDS meeting during TechEx2016 focused on a series of global efforts to help us improve the quality of entities within federations and the trust that we placeRead More…
Talking to the Operators: REFEDS at TechEx 2016
Every fall, REFEDS has the opportunity to travel across the pond and have an all day meeting at the Internet2 TechEx, thanks to our generous hosts. For the meeting in September 2016Read More…
REFEDS announces publication of R&S v1.3
Following extensive consultation and review, the REFEDS Steering Committee has ratified version 1.3 of the REFEDS Research and Scholarship Entity Category and the specification was published on the REFEDS website on 8thRead More…