11:39 p.m.
Dear colleagues,
The InCommon Technical Advisory Committee wants your help bringing a “good
practice” approach to research and education (R&E) identity federation.
Would you please join me on Tuesday, May 7, at 1:00 PM UTC, to plan how we
might accomplish this? We will rough out a regular meeting schedule and
set some immediate goals for the Federation Readiness Check working group
then. (See below/attached for meeting details.)
A significant roadblock for new R&E community members is validating their
identity provider (IdP) or service provider (SP) deployments. Current good
federation practice involves an overwhelming variety of expectations,
standards, entity categories, frameworks, profiles, and more. There exists
no single, comprehensive resource for operational guidance and integration
testing. What documentation or test resources exist are difficult to find
even for experienced IAM professionals, are typically restricted to
federation members, and are focused almost exclusively on IdPs. While the
decentralized nature of R&E federation allows it to scale far beyond
current commercial offerings, that same decentralization makes enacting
meaningful change to IdP, SP, or federation operations seemingly
impossible. A scorecard would be a powerful tool for change.
Federation Readiness Check Working Group membership is open to the public.
Please feel free to forward this invitation to anyone you think would be
interested. Our initial meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, at
1:00 PM UTC via Zoom (
https://researchdata-us.zoom.us/j/81548511164?pwd=Uzh3UTXMdmldUWMK3pPWd85mr…)
We will continue the discussion on the fedtestwg mailing list (
https://lists.incommon.org/sympa/info/fedtestwg) and the
#inc-fed-ready-check-wg Slack channel (https://internet2.slack.com/)
Working group materials will be posted to the Internet2 Confluence wiki (
https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/inctac/federation-readiness-check-wg
).
Please note that as an Internet2 Activity, the Internet2 Intellectual
Property Policy applies the working group (
https://internet2.edu/community/about-us/policies/internet2-intellectual-pr…)
Please direct any Internet2 policy questions to legal(a)internet2.edu.
Best wishes,
Matthew
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Research Data and Communication Technologies
P.O. Box 81 Garrett Park, MD 20896 USA
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Email: meconomou(a)researchdata.us