On 6th October 2015, the European Court of Justice declared the Safe Harbour agreement invalid. This means that US companies can no longer self certify that they provide “adequate protection” in lineRead More…
Discussing Identity Problems in Indianapolis
It’s been one month now from the REFEDS gathering in Indianapolis. I was impressed to see so many people attending the meeting on a sunny and warm Sunday morning. REFEDS meeting wasRead More…
Can We Rest Assured?
At the recent TERENA AAI Workshop, I led a small group in discussing how we can practically address the assurance requirements for our user communities. It is one of the most oftenRead More…
The Interfederation Problem
The Interfederation Problem Interfederation – the processing of sharing entity metadata between different federations – is intended to both make management of metadata easier for Identity Providers (IdPs) and Service Providers (SPs)Read More…
News on the Identity and Trust Technologies Research Activity
Being this the REFEDS blog you would expect to only read about REFEDS related topics. However, I think it is worth sharing the work done by the Identity & Trust Technologies ResearchRead More…
SCHAC Second Life
In the summer of 2014, TERENA (now GEANT Association) commissioned work (to Heather Flanagan) to revitalise the SCHAC schema in response to the demand from the community to have a well-structured andRead More…
Hanging out with the VAMPS
We held the annual Fall Meeting for REFEDS on the 5th of September in Utrecht, in conjunction with the TERENA / Internet2 / Surfnet VAMP meeting looking at challenges for virtual organisations. Read More…
Same Same, but Different
Nicole Harris reports back on the REFEDS BOF at APAN33, Feburary 2012. Back in February, Licia and I were lucky enough to be invited to present a REFEDS BOF at APAN33. APANRead More…
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?
Or in this case, the bleeding hearts? It would be very difficult today to miss out on the news of the heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability. Heartbleed is a serious vulnerability in the popularRead More…
Seasonal Greetings from REFEDS!
Licia and I would like to say a very Merry Christmas to everyone who has been involved in REFEDS work in 2013. It’s been a very busy year and we wouldn’t haveRead More…