It’s hard to believe we have reached 46 REFEDS meetings! Our community remains engaged and passionate about supporting R&E federations, and their engagement in Tirana at TNC23 demonstrated that truth. Held onRead More…
REFEDS Announces New Versions of Access Entity Categories
Background One of the biggest problems faced in the Identity Federation ecosystem is support for the safe and appropriate release of user data to services in the form of attributes. Organisations haveRead More…
All The Newcomers! A Report Out on REFEDS 45
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…