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The Policy Side of Federations Kenneth J. Klingenstein and David L. Wasley Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - CAMP Shibboleth Implementation Workshop. List of Docs. Membership guidelines and pricing Application to join federation, which, if approved, results in a
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The Policy Side of FederationsKenneth J. Klingenstein and David L. WasleyTuesday, June 29, 2004 - CAMP Shibboleth Implementation Workshop
List of Docs • Membership guidelines and pricing • Application to join federation, which, if approved, results in a • Participation agreement, which the participant institution signs with the federation operator, based somewhat on the participant reading the • Federation operational practices statement, which describes for I/A/Metadata mgt of the federated operator • List of federated attributes • (List of common uses of various trust levels) • Participant operational practices statement • Privacy??
Federation Operational Practices • Technical Aspects • How the CA is operated (InCommon CPS) • How the metadata is assembled and signed • How the identity proofing of the participant enterprise is done and credentials delivered • Policy Aspects • Dispute resolution
Participant Operational Practices • Different for credential providers (origins) than for resource providers (targets?) • On-campus versus off-campus trust • Requirements for tight language, audit, etc. unknown • Actual use unknown • Scalability will require another approach…
Participant Operational Practices • Participant community served and baseline “member” • Authentication Policies and Practices • Attribute Assertions • Privacy • Technical standards
POP authentication details • Identification • Office of record • Method of identity proofing • Reuse of netids • Authentication technologies • WebISO key issues • Timeouts • Logouts – user initiated; global or local • Kiosks
Privacy statements • Two cases: • Attributes associated with identity • Attributes unassociated with identity • “Three or less” rule of thumb • EU privacy laws • Attributes tagged with appropriate use