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…
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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…
Federating APAN
(view of the nightly Hong Kong light show as it starts). The Asia-Pacific region is a hotbed of federation activity. A new federation has just gone online last month (the Singapore AccessRead More…
Shibboleth Upgrades Critical as IdP Reaches End of Life
The Shibboleth Identity Provider is one of the main software components used in identity federations worldwide and one of the most popular software choices for people deploying federated identity for research andRead More…
Harmonisation: Interoperability
This post is part of a formal deliverable of the GÉANT GN4 “Trust and Identity Harmonisation” task, which was funded for a one-year period from May 2015 – April 2016. ARead More…
Harmonisation: Entity Categories
This post is part of a formal deliverable of the GÉANT GN4 “Trust and Identity Harmonisation” task, which was funded for a one-year period from May 2015 – April 2016. A seriesRead More…
What’s in a Name?
What’s in a Name? Internet2 Community Supports Unique Researcher Identifiers This piece was originally posted on the Internet2 blog and is reposted here with the kind permission of Internet2. REFEDS welcomes theRead More…
Release Attributes…For Science!
The entire REFEDS community sends congratulations to our good friends at LIGO on the historic detection of gravitational waves, recently announced and celebrated in the scientific community and beyond. LIGO has beenRead More…
What does the Safe Habor Ruling Mean?
On 6th October 2015, the European Court of Justice declared the Safe Harbour agreement invalid. This means that US companies can no longer self certify that they provide “adequate protection” in lineRead More…
The Interfederation Problem
The Interfederation Problem Interfederation – the processing of sharing entity metadata between different federations – is intended to both make management of metadata easier for Identity Providers (IdPs) and Service Providers (SPs)Read More…