Federation Building Blocks

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• Federation Building Blocks
• EuroCAMP, Malaga 18 Oct 2006
• Julie Frøseth, UNINETT

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Overview

• Affiliates
• Applications and services
• Federations
• Challenges

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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

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Feide Services

• 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

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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

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Services Relations

• Important!
• Categorization
• Non-persistent
• Important to include this category
• Persistent
• Majority
• Provisioning
• Not really desirable
• New technology, new opportunities

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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

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Extended Federations

• Current
• MyID
• Kalmar Union (Haka)
• eduGAIN
• http//rnd.feide.no
• To do (trust, info exchange, technology, policies)

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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

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Contact Information

• Email me julie.froseth_at_uninett.no
• Email Feide administrasjon_at_feide.no
• Web http//www.feide.no/index.en.html