As Identity federations have become a central part of the NREN landscape over the last 10 years, with over 70 known identity federations and almost 90 eduroam deployments across the globeRead More…
Identity Federations in the Asia Pacific
(by Elleina Filippi (née Andrews), Service Delivery Manager, Australian Access Federation) APAN (Asia Pacific Advanced Network) is continuing to assist the growth of Identity Management federations in the Asia Pacific (APAC) Region.Read More…
SIRTFI Turns Two
Blog post by Hannah Short (CERN) It seems like only yesterday that the Sirtfi was published by REFEDS! It’s safe to say that the Security Incident Response Trust Framework for Federated IdentityRead More…
An Update on RA21
It’s been a while since there has been a general update to the community regarding the RA21 project. I was able to talk to some people at TIIME, and on the offRead More…
REFEDS reviews mission statement and plans for 2018
A REFEDS meeting concluded a 2 day workshop organised by GEANT to review T&I plans and strategy for the next two to four years, held in a snowy Amsterdam. REFEDS Survey TheRead More…
REFEDS tales in San Francisco
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…