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Aim of the event

Historically, IP-based authentication or shared accounts have been common mechanisms to access external resources. These approaches are simplistic and fail when staff, students and researchers are off-campus or need to access collaborative resources intended for an individual user.

Identity Federation allows campus authentication systems to integrate with a wide variety of services on campus, within your country and beyond. However, enabling Identity Federation demands clear Policy document that defines governance, roles, obligation and rights of entities, procedures for membership application and cancelation, liabilities etc. As Identity Federation enables infrastructure that supports transmission of personal information between different administrative domains, and even different countries, special care must be put into writing this document.

This workshop is aimed at enabling NRENs and respective National Identity Federation Operators, to setup Identity Federation Policy document.

Audience:

This EuroCAMP is of most interest to:
  • Identity Federation Operators and NREN exploring Identity Federation solution for their country and wanting to promote Identity Federation to their connected campus;
  • Legal representatives of Identity Federation Operators and NRENs that are involved in writing and implementing Policy documents for NREN services.

NRENs that are specially targeted are the ones that didn’t establish Identity Federation and those that established Identity Federations, but still don’t have a Policy document.

Topics include:

  • Basic concept, model and skeleton of Policy document. General parts of Policy document will be described, together with who applies the Policy and how.
  • Brief overview of additional documents that supplements Policy document
  • Policy „Reference” document that will be in advance prepared for participants
  • Experiences from day-to-day operation of Identity Federation and implementation of the Policy document

After this EuroCAMP Workshop, participants will

  1. Have good understanding why they need a Policy document, which issues it addresses and how, and what is content of the document
  2. Be able to easily customize the Policy “template“ document and use it in their own Identity Federation
  3. Have overview of procedures that should be established for implementation of the Policy in every-day operations of Identity Federation

You can find the programme of the two day event at Day 1 and Day 2.