The Great Identity Debate
The Great Identity Debate at the Internet2 Global Summit 2017 saw experts in the identity field debate a fundamental question for our community. The panel was asked to debate for and againstRead More…
Tag Archives: Federations
News from APAN43
by Terry Smith, AAF At the APAN43 meeting at the Habitat Center in New Delia, India the APAN IAM Task Force provided a one day IAM Training event (40+ participants from 10Read 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…
What does the Safe Habor Ruling Mean?
On 6th October 2015, the European Court of Justice declared the Safe Harbour agreement invalid. This means that US companies can no longer self certify that they provide “adequate protection” in lineRead More…
Removing the Barriers: the Login Problem
One of the primary goals of REFEDS is to remove the barriers to use that users, identity providers and service providers experience when interacting with identity federations. When speaking to end usersRead More…
My thoughts on EGI Federated Identity Platform
Last week I attended the AAI workshop organised as part of the EGI technical Forum. The workshop was meant to discuss the proposed paper on EGI federated identity platform [1] and toRead More…