Middleware Announcements

[Ann West <>]

Dear Colleagues,

 

Today we open a consultation period for two white papers intended for key stakeholders interested in understanding organizational, policy, and legal aspects of federation.

 

•         “Trusted Relationships for Access Management: The InCommon Model” describes the InCommon Federation trust model and provides a high-level introduction to the role of the federation operator and participants in establishing the trust framework.

 

•         “Introduction to Identity Federations,” discusses how identity federations work to support access management to services and information resources that are distributed across many organizations.  

 

These two papers are open for public comment until April 10, 2017. We are very keen to read your suggestions and understand how you might use them to help educate your stakeholders.  If you don’t believe you would use them, we’d like to understand that as well.

 

We would be particularly interested in hearing reactions from members of the target audience; that is, executives, managers, and others interested in understanding the purpose of federation, but don’t need to know how the technology works.

 

•         To review the documents, please access this Confluence wiki page: https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/M4OTBg.

 

•         To provide comments, please edit the table on the wiki page above.  You can sign in with your home credentials if you are a member of an organization In InCommon or eduGAIN and has a registered Research and Scholarship-enabled Identity Provider. You may also use a Google account or an Internet2 SiteID account. Further directions on how to login to the wiki space can be found here: https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/fA47BQ

 

Please let me know if you have questions. We look forward to reading your suggestions!

 

Many thanks,

 

Ann West

Associate Vice President, Trust & Identity