Presence and IntComm WG

[Tom Scavo <>]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Peter Saint-Andre 
<>
 wrote:
>
> I've been having some discussions with folks in other industries about
> what I've been calling federation clearinghouses. I blogged about it
> briefly here:
>
> https://stpeter.im/journal/1445.html

You've pretty much just described a typical SAML federation (such as
the InCommon Federation).

> Is this something that the Internet2 community might like to explore?

We're already doing it for the SAML protocol :-) There has been some
discussion about including RADIUS-based eduroam into the mix.

Tom Scavo
Operations Manager
InCommon.org