REFEDS 45, held as part of the Internet2 TechEx in Denver, Colorado, US, was a smashing success. Prior to the event, the organizers had to move us to a larger room thanksRead More…
The First REFEDS Strategic Plan
On the 17 March 2022 REFEDS Steering Committee (SC) call, SC members completed the development of the first REFEDS Strategic Plan. You might ask, why now? REFEDS has existed for over 15Read More…
How Do REFEDS Consultations Work?
I’ve had a few questions about the REFEDS Consultation process so thought it would be useful to explain a little for those that are new or indeed for those who have beenRead More…
Pronouns, Gender, and Updates to eduPerson and SCHAC
The purpose of attribute schemas is to describe the structure and use of an attribute such that applications and services have standardized patterns to work with for each attribute. If there areRead More…
REFEDS data protection Code of Conduct
The new REFEDS data protection Code of Conduct has been published. Background Federated identity management is about releasing attributes from an Identity Provider (IdP) to a Service Provider (SP). In the researchRead More…
REFEDS End of Year Report 2021
REFEDS has published its REFEDS-EOY-2021. Like many of our sister organisations, 2021 continued the pandemic-related challenges for REFEDS and cancellations of our normal activities. The community continued to step up, however, andRead More…
The REFEDS 2022 Workplan
REFEDS work plans are developed by and for the community, changing as they need to and staying the same where appropriate. With a decade of work plans on record, the community continuesRead More…
Indepth Conversations at REFEDS 43
REFEDS held its 43rd meeting on 30th September 2021 as an early kick-off to the InCommon CAMP / ACAMP week. After much reminiscing and working out that we would have been visitingRead More…
Next Steps for the GÉANT Code of Conduct
Background Since 2014, the GN4 project has been looking to revise the existing GÉANT Code of Conduct (CoCo) for Service Providers using identity federations. This has become necessary for range of reasons:Read More…
REFEDS Community Announces Publication of New Entity Categories
The REFEDS Community is happy to announce the publication of the Anonymous Authorization and Pseudonymous Authorization Entity Categories. The Categories were developed under the auspices of SeamlessAccess who approached REFEDS to hostRead More…