REFEDS State of the Union 2018
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…
REFEDS Distinguished Engineer Program
The REFEDS Steering Committee approved the funding of a Distinguished Engineer pilot program, designed to bring individuals from new and emerging federations to REFEDS and TNC19. Two awardees will be selected forRead More…
A Recap from PiDapalooza 2019
Last week saw about 130 people, all interested in personal identifiers, attending PiDapalooza 2019 in Dublin, Ireland. With a focus on academic use cases, the in-depth engagement between librarians, publishers, data curators, andRead More…
Federation 2.0 – Arrival of the IdP-SP Proxy
by Jim Basney I once was a true believer in the end-to-end multi-lateral federation vision: that metadata about IdPs and SPs enables authentication by users from thousands of organizations to thousands ofRead More…
Assurance – A truly collaborative work
There has been a lot of discussion about assurance in the research and education space over the past year. A previous blog written by Mikael Linden describes the work done by theRead More…
Federation 2.0 – An SP Perspective (Part Two)
Incentives in Centralized and Decentralized Identity Systems by Rainer Hörbe In an ideal Internet users would freely roam the prairies of abundant services, where interactions would be secure and privacy-preserving by default.Read More…
REFEDS 39 Wrap Up
With approximately 70 people attending, REFEDS enjoyed another highly interactive and informative meeting at the Internet2 Technology Exchange in Orlando. While the initial plan was to focus the agenda on just aRead More…
Federation 2.0 – An SP Perspective (Part One)
The Future of Federations Alternate realities / Distributed identity credentials / Accommodating the many faces of a digital identity credential By Laura Paglione (ORCID) Early this year I attended the 26th InternetRead More…
The Future of Federations – Part Three – Tackling the Innovator’s Dilemma
by Chris Phillips, Technology Architect of the Canadian Access Federation Tackling the Innovator’s Dilemma Transformative moments are often remembered affectionately as if they happened overnight. What is closer to the truth isRead More…
The Future of Federations – Part Two
Federation 2.0 by Tom Barton, University of Chicago and Internet2 “Authenticate locally, authorize globally” was the rallying cry of those who originally conceived of what we now called identity federation. Deliver goodRead More…