Project Moonshot - preparatory material for the Vienna meeting

["Josh Howlett" <Josh.Howlett@xxxxxx>]

Dear all,

Please find attached two papers intended to stimulate and inform
discussion on the 17 February at the Vienna meeting of TF-EMC2 and
TF-Mobility:

 - "Project Moonshot - Vienna briefing paper": a paper describing
Project Moonshot.

 - "Moonshoot Feasibility Analysis": an independent technical
feasibility analysis of Moonshot undertaken by Sam Hartman of Painless
Security LLC.

I look forward to your comments!

This is the abstract from the 'Briefing paper':

"Project Moonshot is an effort to address a number of issues that have
been observed with SAML-based federation. These include: the difficulty
of using a federated identity with applications that are not HTTP user
agents; the so called 'Identity Provider discovery' and 'Multiple
Affiliation' problems; and inter-federation.

Project Moonshot proposes an architecture for addressing these issues;
in addition, it proposes a number of other novel benefits that may
improve the ease of using and deploying SAML-based federation.

This architecture is partially documented with specifications that are
currently undergoing updates in response to an independent feasibility
study that was commissioned by JANET(UK). This study found that the
proposed
architecture and a proof-of-concept implementation is technically
feasible, but that non-trivial challenges face its wider implementation
and adoption.

The purpose of this paper is to brief the NREN community on Project
Moonshot and to provide a technical overview, in the hope that a
consensus may emerge within the community on whether and how to proceed
with future developments, either based on Moonshot or related work."

best regards, josh.

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Attachment: Project Moonshot - Vienna briefing paper.pdf
Description: Project Moonshot - Vienna briefing paper.pdf

Attachment: Moonshot Feasibility Analysis.pdf
Description: Moonshot Feasibility Analysis.pdf