Introduce Phishing-Resistant MFA Support Dear REFEDS Community, We’re excited to announce the launch of the 2025 REFEDS MFA Profile Working Group! This group aims to strengthen community support for stronger authentication byRead More…
By Heather Flanagan (REFEDS coordinator) When I worked in university IT many years ago, universities were just beginning to grapple with the idea of moving their email systems from in-house servers toRead More…
By Alex Stuart (JISC) How did we get here Federation operators have rules for entity registration to ensure a good user experience within that federation. These rules are typically published in aRead More…
REFEDS publishes standards and specifications used by the global research and education community. Together, these standards enable scalable, secure, and seamless federated access. As our community grows and matures, these specifications haveRead More…
To find information about federations requires that you go to each and every one of the federations you’re interested in and manually gather the information or go to a service that hasRead More…
by David Walker Heather Flanagan’s recent blog post, The Changing Face of Federation, is an excellent look forward to the future of identity federations and what federations must do to remain relevant.Read More…
Research & Education (R&E) Identity Federations have traditionally been about authenticating an individual. That has worked for R&E federations for nearly two decades and put R&E ahead in efficiently offering a criticalRead More…
by Fredrik Domeij The update of the Profile has been quite a journey. It started in the Fall of 2020 when the National Institute of Health in the U.S. announced a timelineRead More…
by Kyle Lewis, RAF WG Chair REFEDS is pleased to announce that the REFEDS Assurance Framework (RAF) update to version 2.0 has been released. This concludes three years of work by theRead More…
It’s hard to believe we have reached 46 REFEDS meetings! Our community remains engaged and passionate about supporting R&E federations, and their engagement in Tirana at TNC23 demonstrated that truth. Held onRead More…