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…
Addressing FIM4R Requirements
I attended the last FIM4R meeting where I presented a document (Proposed Roadmap to address eResearch Requirements) prepared in response to the FIM4R paper. The FIM4R paper identifies a number of challengesRead 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…