by Chris Phillips, Technology Architect of the Canadian Access Federation Tackling the Innovator’s Dilemma Transformative moments are often remembered affectionately as if they happened overnight. What is closer to the truth isRead More…
The Future of Federations – Part Two
Federation 2.0 by Tom Barton, University of Chicago and Internet2 “Authenticate locally, authorize globally” was the rallying cry of those who originally conceived of what we now called identity federation. Deliver goodRead More…
REFEDS Assurance Framework and Single-Factor profile in public consultation
Research and education identity federations are more and more facing competition with commercial authentication services, such as Google. However, the commercial providers are still lacking a business model for identity proofing thatRead More…
Is This Your Digital Life?
For anyone interested in privacy and security it’s been difficult in the last couple of days to avoid the congressional hearing and Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony on the Cambridge Analytica data story. InRead More…
The Future of Federations – Part One
This month we have a series of blog posts from long-time participants in the federation space on where they see identity federation going in the future. Blog post by Lukas Hämmerle (SWiTCH)Read More…
Broadening Asi@Connect Knowledge on Federated Identity
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…
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…