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…
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…
REFEDS Assurance Framework and Single-Factor profile in public consultation
Research and education identity federations are more and more facing competition with commercial authentication services, such as Google. However, the commercial providers are still lacking a business model for identity proofing thatRead More…
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…
The Future of Federations – Part One
This month we have a series of blog posts from long-time participants in the federation space on where they see identity federation going in the future. Blog post by Lukas Hämmerle (SWiTCH)Read More…
An Update on RA21
It’s been a while since there has been a general update to the community regarding the RA21 project. I was able to talk to some people at TIIME, and on the offRead More…
REFEDS reviews mission statement and plans for 2018
A REFEDS meeting concluded a 2 day workshop organised by GEANT to review T&I plans and strategy for the next two to four years, held in a snowy Amsterdam. REFEDS Survey TheRead More…