Presentations

18 Feb 2018   
    Added to REFEDs proposed workplan from TIIME 2018

10 April - 30 May 2018
    REFEDS blog series 

28 June 2018
    Added to REFEDS 2018 workplan

October 2018

February 2019: TIIME 2019, Wien, Austria; "What will federations look like in 15 years?"

Tom B reported:

I did a TIIME session to get Federation 2.0 input. Packed room, lively discussion kicked off by asking for lessons learned, things that should happen, or future scenarios on a 5-10 year horizon. A few highlights:

• Will Webauthn (the W3C standard for browsers to support PKI based authentication) kill federation?
• Balance of privacy vs adopt-ability. Related issue of (lack of) attribute release and all of the familiar issues around that.
• Need for new strategies to produce actual attribute release. Lack of success here could kill federation since only that attributes add value over other means.
• More domains will need to be served by federation, implying reducing reliance on some of the assumptions inherent in the R&E community that are built upon to produce trust.
• Increasing importance of independent review, though perhaps not external audit, to establish trust.
• Identity-linking at SPs
• Better change management for IdPs
• More communities, their attribute sources, their authority need to be incorporated into “federation operations”, ie, some of what national federations currently do will need to be delegated more widely.
• If Webauthn doesn’t kill federation, could be that one or two “uber IdPs” will emerge that everyone uses, and that will do it.

June 2019: TNC19, Tallinn, Estonia; REFEDS update

TechEx 2019, REFEDS update

TechEx 2019, “The Future of Federation,” scheduled for Tuesday, December 10 from 11:10-12:10 pm.

1. https://meetings.internet2.edu/2019-technology-exchange/detail/10005577/
2. Notes on presentation
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