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Federation Building Blocks EuroCAMP, Malaga 18 Oct 2006 Julie Fr ø seth, UNINETT. Overview. Affiliates Applications and services Federations Challenges . Host Organizations. Higher education 5 universities, many colleges Expecting ~30 in 2006 Collaboration Shared apps
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Federation Building Blocks EuroCAMP, Malaga 18 Oct 2006 Julie Frøseth, UNINETT
Overview • Affiliates • Applications and services • Federations • Challenges
Host Organizations • Higher education • 5 universities, many colleges • Expecting ~30 in 2006 • Collaboration • Shared apps • High schools and elementary schools • 11000 users • Expecting 8 counties fall semester 2007
Commercial and non-commercial Shared administrative applications Student registry Payroll system Financial system Electronic invoice Archive system National apps MyPage and MyID Local apps E-learning Portals Wireless access Local apps with outside users All of the above Project workspace Feide Services
Example Services • Feide Customer Portal (Feide) • For host organizations • Insight (Feide) • Easy access to user data • Guest User App (Feide initiated) • Easy access to local services • Contempus.Invoice (UNINETT FAS) • Electronic invoice system • Simplify work flow, money-saver • Student License (Inmeta) • Resource management • Joint purchase agreement • No need to know user identity nor frequency of visits
Services Relations • Important! • Categorization: • Non-persistent • Important to include this category • Persistent • Majority • Provisioning • Not really desirable • New technology, new opportunities
Players • Ministry of Education and Research • Resolution on identity management • Identity providers (campus) • Control user data • Eager to contribute • Service providers • Control authorization • Users • One login page; monitor user data sent to service • Data Inspectorate • Positive feedback • International federation • Ease of access to local services • Ease of access to data about visitor
Extended Federations • Current • MyID • Kalmar Union (Haka) • eduGAIN • http://rnd.feide.no • To do (trust, info exchange, technology, policies)
Feide Challenges • New software • In production • Multivendor environment (services) • Handling escalating number of • Identity providers • Service providers • Continuing (national & international) work • Shared attribute definitions • Shared assurance level • Identity management • Password policy • Credential usage
Contact Information • Email me: julie.froseth@uninett.no • Email Feide: administrasjon@feide.no • Web: http://www.feide.no/index.en.html