Conveners
Evolving Federations
- Heather Flanagan (Spherical Cow Consulting)
Description
Federations are growing and evolving to support new communities, advance core services, and explore new technologies. This session will take us around the world to hear about new federations forming in Africa, powerful services provided by the federation in Australia, and the direction of new technologies through eduGAIN. Participants will come away with inspiration and practical guidance to bring back to their own organizations as they plan for the future.
eduGAIN is the well known global trust fabric that lets millions of researchers and students access services with their institutional accounts. eduGAIN’s light technical and policy requirements contributed to a sustained growth, but it also led to shortcomings due to a wide set of different authentication and access services that do not also play well together. The eduGAIN community is working...
The identity federation space is relatively new in Africa due to contextual and technical challenges which include the identity dilemma, lack of concrete use cases to firm relevance and the expertise to establish and operate an identity federation. Further, countries that have established identity federations are mostly inactive as per the entity registration statistics. To overcome some of...
Identity provider (IdP)-as-a-Service resurfaced among the top priorities for federation operators in the 2021 REFEDS survey. The Australian Access Federation (AAF) first launched its cloud IdP platform (Rapid IdP) in 2018, with more than 70% of customers having adopted Rapid IdP since. This presentation will discuss:
- AAF's platform architecture and design decisions
- the benefits of this...
