In line with the tradition, REFEDS opened on Sunday with the first meeting of the Trust and Identity series that unfolded during Tech Ex2017. REFEDS Update Nicole Harris highlighted REFEDS developmentsRead 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…
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…
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…
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…
‘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…