RFQ: REFEDS Support
REFEDS is issuing the attached Request for Quotations (RFQ) for the provision of secretarial and coordination support for REFEDS. In order to support its work and operations, REFEDS is seeking quotations forRead More…
The RA21 Recommended Practice draft
On 17 April 2019, the “Recommended Practice on Improved Access to Institutionally-Provided Information Resources” was released for public comment. This is the final output of the RA21 initiative, an effort that startedRead More…
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…