School Ring Federation

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 School Ring Federation

• At a high level, this blog is about how xdiCoin
  and OX messaging could be used to support OpenID
  Connect 1.0 multi-party federation saml.
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• The interactions between individuals and
  organizations has become increasingly complex. By
  using OX, people or organizations can create data
  federations. Federations will enable
  simplification of trust by standardizing the
  vocabulary, policies and operating procedures for
  the respective data sharing relationship.
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While talking with Denise Tayloe from Privo last
week, I realized there are a chicken and the egg
problem with identifiers. As soon as kids have a
coin, I realized that the most important trust
ring to draw is your Family Ring. The Family
Rings solves two problems Ive been thinking
about recently (1) how do my children interact
with companies (Lego, Moshi Monsters, etc) (2)
how do my kids interact with the school. In order
to manage these relationships, the organizations
in question need to understand that I am the
parent. The School Ring is my idea to show the
potential opportunities for federation. Ox Plus
is a private social networking application for a
K-12 school that we wrote as part of the project
with ID3. We are planning to re-launch ox Plus on
a new public website. We will re-brand it, and
enable open registration (which will help for the
enterprise single sign on).    
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With open registration, people can obtain OpenID
Connect 1.0 credentials and an OX personal data
store. OX is used to store the parent child
relationships. Ox Plus also provides tools to
create a school in OX. Even a homeschooling
parent could register their own school, specify
that they are the teacher, and point to their
kids as the students.   This type of
standardization enables kids to receive services
(with their parents consent), and for schools to
make data available up the stream, within the
confines of the rules of the federation. This is
how governments can get real time test scores and
access to richer content. Improved
inter-operability would also help students who
move to a new district or state, giving the
receiving educators a better understanding of a
students capabilities on apples apples
basis.   Article resource-http//thegluuserver.wo
rdpress.com/2014/07/28/school-ring-federation/