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UK Federation Update: Strategic Roadmap & Interesting Developments

Update on UK Federation stats, roadmap, and strategic development plan. Focus on identity management, access control, and upcoming projects. Explore areas of improvement through community consultation.

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UK Federation Update: Strategic Roadmap & Interesting Developments

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  1. tf-emc meeting: 28th / 29th March 2007 UK Federation Update Nicole Harris Programme Manager

  2. Predicted Adoption

  3. Federation Stats: 28th March 2007 • 45 MEMBERS. • 113 ENTITIES (two dual in nature): • 50 Identity Providers • 65 Service Providers • 27 ‘Core’ Institutional Members. • No measurement of end-user coverage.

  4. Federation Development Roadmap • Areas of importance as identified through community consultation: • Liaison with other Federations. • Policy-lite Service Providers. • Improve Discovery. • ‘Confederation’. • Support for more Authentication Solutions. • Support for Multiple Identities. • Levels of Assurance / Grid interoperation. • Virtual Organisations. • Orphanages. • eduRoam / Federation interoperation.

  5. Strategic Development Roadmap • Identity Management, Identity Management, Identity Management: • Position Paper by May 2007. • Identity Management Project: http://www.angel.ac.uk/identity-project/index.html. • Identity Orphanages. • ‘Centre of Excellence’ for access management @ EDINA. • Virtual Organisations. • Levels of Assurance. • Moving from supporting the institution to supporting the user? • e-assessment, e-portfolio, lifelong learning, social software.

  6. Interesting Stuff • Federated Access Management Animation: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/themes/access_management/federation/. • ‘Institutional Preparedness’ Study: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/themes/access_management/ipsreport.pdf • Upcoming: Business Case Toolkit for Institutions on federated access management. • Publisher Liaison Work: more tomorrow!

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