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…
REFEDS 2020 – End of Year Report
REFEDS has published it’s End of Year Report for 2020. Like many of our sister organisations, 2020 proved a disruptive year for REFEDS and led a series of our normal activities toRead More…
Request for Quotations: MET development
In order to support its work and operations, REFEDS is seeking quotations for an upgrade to the REFEDS MET tool. This is expected to be a one-off piece of work to bringRead More…
The Assurance WG 2.0
Author: Jule Ziegler Regular REFEDS Assurance Working Group Calls have been picked up again! Around 1.5 years have passed now since the two REFEDS specifications, the REFEDS Assurance Framework (RAF) and theRead More…
COVID-19 Call to Action – We Need Your Help
If your institution runs an Identity Provider within a Research and Education Federation, please read this urgent message. The international science community has asked for your help in connecting your researchers andRead More…
It’s a Wrap! REFEDS 41
With nearly 100 people in the room, the REFEDS 41 meeting in New Orleans provided another excellent opportunity to share knowledge, experience, and ideas with representatives from the global R&E FIM community.Read More…
It’s a Success! The First T&I Hackathon
The first REFEDS T&I Hackathon was a great success, thanks to the 30 participants to the event. We had participants from as far away as Uganda and Malaysia, as well as participantsRead More…
Distinguished Engineer – Alex Mwotil
My first time at TNC19, and especially REFEDS 40, was quite an experience and I would like to categorically thank REFEDS and GÉANT for the opportunity and support and especially for theRead More…