Conveners
Rebooting the Old Reliables: 4C
- Ann West (Internet2)
Description
NRENs have built their reputation on making things resilient - but what about today's vendor dependencies and long-standing services like eduroam and eduGAIN that we now take for granted? This talk explores how NRENs can apply their traditional resilience thinking to operational, business, and strategic risks, and identify where to focus our efforts.
eduGAIN, the identity interfederation, enables researchers, teachers, and students to log into services worldwide using home organisation credentials. To remain the globally trusted infrastructure for Research and Education, we must enhance trust and modernize technology. This talk outlines a rethink of eduGAIN trust to improve attribute release, security, and interoperability. While...
As the technology landscape changes, some good things remain the same. eduroam and certificate services remain two stalwarts in the NREN box of services for good reason. As eduroam and certificate services approach 15 years old in the US, we are continuing to learn a number of lessons in how to scale through cloud services, and grow with new relationships in adjacent but highly aligned...
We're networkers - good at managing dependencies. But what about non-technical dependencies and need for service-related evolution? We have to go with the market flow and we have very little control or choice. This is daunting. These are forces far bigger than we are. What can we do? It's not as hopeless as it looks. Join us to explore dependencies up and down the NREN business model - from...
5 years of growing the eSO program from a single state into 12 states, serving hundreds of schools, libraries, and museums have given Internet2 unique insights into how these deployments differ from deployments for traditional higher education and research organizations. In sharing these experiences we hope to start a dialog with the international eduroam community on ideas on how to serve our...
