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Providing Access Management Services to Education and Research

Providing Access Management Services to Education and Research. Henry Hughes Head of Middleware Development. Outline. The story so far… Joint approach What the federation provides Timescales Further details. The story so far…. Existing Authentication and Authorisation Services

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Providing Access Management Services to Education and Research

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  1. Providing Access Management Services to Education and Research Henry Hughes Head of Middleware Development JISC Access Management Showcase

  2. Outline • The story so far… • Joint approach • What the federation provides • Timescales • Further details

  3. The story so far… • Existing Authentication and Authorisation Services • Athens (HE/FE/Research) • IP Based Authentication (Schools) • JISC Core Middleware Development Programme selected Shibboleth and started in April 2004 • Established Shiboleth Development and Support Service (SDSS) & early adopters programme November 2004 • Becta piloted Shibboleth technology 2004 - 2005 • Agreement to proceed with a joint approach March 2006

  4. Joint Approach • Provides consistency across the whole of education for federated (distributed) authentication and authorisation • Benefits the user experience • Pooling of experience and expertise • Benefits of economies of scale for both sectors • Facilitates sharing of content and collaboration across sectors

  5. What the Federation provides • The federation acts as an independent body, managing the trust relationships between IdPs and SPs • Members sign up to federation policy forming a ‘fabric of trust’ • The federation service provider also: • Checks new members • Maintains a list of members • Provides a discovery service (WAYF) • Agrees technical standards • Provides policy control • Provides support and advice

  6. Timescales • The UK Access Management Federation will be available during the last quarter of 2006 • The SDSS Development Federation is available now • Members of the existing SDSS Federation will be migrated to the Production Federation as the service becomes available

  7. Further information • Federation website • http://www.ukfederation.org.uk • E-mail lists • ukfederation-announce@jiscmail.ac.uk • ukfederation-discuss@jiscmail.ac.uk • Other discussion forum • http://quickplace.becta.org.uk/shibboleth

  8. Questions ? JISC Access Management Showcase

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