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Explore the infrastructure, applications, and challenges of the Feide Federation in this EuroCAMP session. Learn about shared administrative apps, collaboration in higher education, and Feide Services. Discover how Feide addresses identity management, data access, and international federation challenges.
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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