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High level overview of the value of identity federations.
| Decision Makers | Heather Flanagan for REFEDS. Creative Commons CC BY 3.0. | |
Business Case for adopting SAML based federations at institutions. | Decision Makers / Project Managers. | Curtis and Cartwright for JISC. Unknown license. | |
Jisc Institutional Preparedness Report | An approach taken by Jisc to assess the readiness of its organisations to adopt federated access. Approach could be reused. | Decision Makers. | Curtis and Cartwright for JISC. Unknown license. |
Federation "Soft" Skills | A federation provides a technical framework for in which the federation operates. The federation however requires some additional soft components to ensure its growth and sustainability.
| Federation staff. | Terry Smith, AAF and APAN TF-IAM. |
Introduction to Federated Identity | Introduction designed for NREN Development Support workshop in Sofia, 2014. | Decision makers | Brook Schofield for GÉANT |
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Resource | Description | Audience | Authors / Licenses |
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Training module developed by Ann Harding and Nicole Harris for staff at GÉANT.
| Non-technical / customer facing staff. | Ann Harding and Nicole Harris. GÉANT Project. | |
What is Federation? | Training developed by APAN TF-IAM group for new federation development in the APAN region.
| Project Managers / Decision Makers. | Terry Smith, AAF and APAN TF-IAM. |
AARC Federation 101 | Various documents supporting a 101 approach to understanding federations. | Project Managers. | AARC project. |
Federation 101 Refresher | Part 1 of a course developed for Federation as a Service training. Covers authentication / authorisation, attributes in federations and main roles within the federation. | Federation Operators. | Peter Schober, Aconet for GÉANT |
What is Federation? | Part 2 of a course developed for Federation as a Service training. Covers basic federation structure. | Federation Operators. | Lukas Hämmerle, SWITCH for GÉANT. |
Interfederation | Part 3 of a course developed for Federation as a Service training. Covers interfederation approaches. | Federation Operators. | Peter Schober, Aconet for GÉANT |
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Federation for Virtual Organisations | Slideset looking at the use cases for federation for researchers and virtual organisations. | Project Managers | Heather Flanagan, NSRC. |
Research Community Requirements | Part of training module developed by Ann Harding and Nicole Harris for staff at GÉANT. | Project Managers | Ann Harding, SWITCH for GÉANT |
NREN Identity Strategy | Part of training module developed by Ann Harding and Nicole Harris for staff at GÉANT. | Project Managers | Ann Harding, SWITCH for GÉANT |
NREN Identity Strategy | Introduction designed for NREN Development Support workshop in Sofia, 2014. | Project Managers | Nicole Harris, REFEDS Creative Commons CC BY 3.0. |
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Federation Policy Template | Template document for federation policy creation. | Federation Managers / Federation Steering | Marina Vermezovic, Mikael Linden, Natalija Radosevic, Peter Schober, Brook Schofield. GÉANT Project. | ||||||
Training associated with federation policy development. | Federation Managers / Federation Steering | Nicole Harris for REFEDS. Creative Commons CC BY 3.0. | |||||||
Federation Policy Training | Training developed by APAN TF-IAM group for new federation development in the APAN region. The federation rules provide the basic trust in the federation.
| Federation Managers / Federation Steering | Terry Smith, AAF and APAN TF-IAM. | ||||||
Metadata Registration Practice Statement | Template document for a federation metadata registration practice statement. | Federation Managers / Federation Steering | Nicole Harris for REFEDS. Creative Commons CC BY 3.0. | ||||||
Part of course developed for Federation as a Service training. | Federation Managers / Operators | Lukas Hämmerle, SWITCH for GÉANT. Peter Schober, Aconet for GÉANT. | |||||||
Implementing a Federation Resource Registry | Training developed by APAN TF-IAM group for new federation development in the APAN region.
| Federation Managers | Terry Smith, AAF and APAN TF-IAM. | ||||||
SWITCH Resource Registry | Example of how SWITCH operates a resource registry. | Federation Operators | Lukas Hämmerle, SWITCH for GÉANT. | ||||||
JAGGER training | Training book for JAGGER as used by Federation as a Service. | Federation Operators | GÉANT project. | ||||||
eduGAIN Best Practice Guide | Assists federations to produce all the required information for each step in order to streamline the process for both joining federations and the eduGAIN Operations Team. | Federation Managers / Federation Steering | Enabling Users team, GÉANT. | ||||||
Attribute Release / Entity Category Training See also the new online course: https://e-academy.geant.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=22 | The goal of the training is to assist identity federation operators in deploying attribute release practices for the Home Organisations and Service Providers in their federations. The training covers:
| Federation Operators | Mikael Linden for GÉANT. Nicole Harris for REFEDS. Creative Commons CC BY 3.0. Rhys Smith, JISC. Lukas Hämmerle, SWITCHaai. Femke Morsch, Surfconext. | ||||||
| Presented at APAN 42; day two of a three-day workshop on identity and access management from the campus level (day 1) to the federation. | Federation Operators / Federation Managers | Nicole Harris, GÉANT Brook Schofield, GÉANT Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 |
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Discovery Guide | Guidelines on how to implement the AAI discovery process effectively. | Service Providers (and Identity Providers). | REFEDS. Creative Commons CC BY 3.0. |
Discovery Service | Training developed by APAN TF-IAM group for new federation development in the APAN region.
| Federation Operators, Service Providers and Identity Providers. | Terry Smith, AAF and APAN TF-IAM. |
Guidelines and slides associated with SP training run by AARC. | Service Providers. | GÉANT for AARC. | |
IAM Online Series | Really useful series of monthly meetings hosted by InCommon. Recent highlight sessions include (but there are many many more): | Identity Providers, Service Providers, general audience. | InCommon. |
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Sirtfi Training | Training on the Sirtfi Entity Category and framework. | Federation Operators, Service Providers and Identity Providers. | GÉANT GLAD Team |
Attribute Release Training | Training on attribute release. | Federation Operators, Service Providers and Identity Providers. | GÉANT GLAD Team |
Campus Education
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A slide deck, expanded from the material presented at WACREN 2016, for educating campuses around why SSO, why federation, and best practices in this space. | general audience, Federation Operators, Campus Administrators | Creative Commons CC BY 3.0. |
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