Addressing FIM4R Requirements
I attended the last FIM4R meeting where I presented a document (Proposed Roadmap to address eResearch Requirements) prepared in response to the FIM4R paper. The FIM4R paper identifies a number of challengesRead More…
Reviewing Research and Scholarship
The REFEDS Research and Scholarship entity category has a simple purpose – it aims to simplify the burden of releasing attributes to services providers whilst ensuring that attributes are released in a safeRead More…
Distributing metadata around eduGAIN – the real picture
Prologue When running a federation, there are multiple ways in which federations can publish their local entities into eduGAIN (i.e. “upstream”), and in which eduGAIN metadata can be published to a federation’sRead More…
REFEDS Contracts 2017
REFEDS is looking for proposals to support the following workareas in 2017. Further details can be found on the REFEDS 2017 Workplan. Proposals for the following areas are sought: Support for SpecialistRead More…
Welcome to IAM Online!
European webinar series on trust & identity launched The ability to use a trusted online identity to share data and access resources has been of growing importance to research and education. ToRead More…
‘Twas the Night Before REFEDS
‘Twas the night before REFEDS, when all through the room Not an assertion was stirring, not even a whom. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that theRead More…
Rounding off a Year of REFEDS in Geneva
REFEDS met from the last time in 2016 on 28th November 2016, kindly hosted by CERN and co-located with the 4th AARC General meeting. As usual, the meeting was focused on reviewingRead More…
REFEDS announces final Sirtfi documentation
Following on from a community consultation, REFEDS is pleased to announce the publication of the Sirtfi Identity Assurance Certification Description v1.0. This forms the final document in the current Sirtfi document suiteRead More…
A Week of Videos
The body of knowledge available for people coming into the identity management space is set to grow just a bit more. This past week, Nicole Harris and Heather Flanagan recorded a seriesRead More…
Stepping-Up Our Entities: REFEDS@TechEx2016
The second panel at the REFEDS meeting during TechEx2016 focused on a series of global efforts to help us improve the quality of entities within federations and the trust that we placeRead More…