17 th TF-EMC2. Lyon, February 2011 On the Many Ways to Identity Exchange D i g i t a l i d e n t i t i e s a r e m o r e v a l u a b l e a s t h e y a r e m o r e w i d e l y a s s e r t a b l e Diego R. Lopez, RedIRIS
17 th TF-EMC2. Lyon, February 2011 The Open Fronts Life beyond SAML OpenID and “Identity 2.0” OAuth and JWT Seeking for meeting points eIRG STORK eduGAIN, PEER, MDX, … AAI convergence and STS efforts Sort of Proxying Inner access: TERENA SPP Outer access: Proposal to REFEDS
17 th TF-EMC2. Lyon, February 2011 The twodotosphere MACE’s WG on OpenID Guidance, toward some degree of standardization Examine the demand for, and applicability of, SAML/OpenID gateways Integrating identities both ways Logins4Life Social authsources social2saml.org SIR-enabled Facebook groups Social discovery services
17 th TF-EMC2. Lyon, February 2011 Tokens and token formats OAuth2 consolidating Several rather mature I-Ds making their way up in IETF And proposals based on it UMA, inside Kantara REST token-based access, inside GN3 JWT: JSON Web Token Intended for space constrained environments HTTP Authorization headers URI query parameters Simpler to code and parse OAuth2 AP: JWT: Proof-of-concept for SIR-REST integration
17 th TF-EMC2. Lyon, February 2011 Higher Convergence STORK progressing Proposal for making EC services STORK-aware Seeking for new use cases in academic space Lever for integration with governmental infrastructures eIRG on AAIs Convergence in academic space a key issue Federations as the main enablers Integration with the wider Internet A long way to go, policy-wise Acknowledgement to TERENA and REFEDS role
17 th TF-EMC2. Lyon, February 2011 Lower Convergence Metadata aggregators PEER (not) vs. eduGAIN Several services integrating federations and Grid PKIs Watch Chris’ talk on this Convergence at the WS level: STS SURFNet experiments and CLARIN interest EMI-EGI initiative GEMBus STS (soon to be demonstrated) EUGridPMA to explore policy aspects
17 th TF-EMC2. Lyon, February 2011 The Identity Swiss Knives Proxying is a wide concept that can address solutions to a wide variety of issues Simplify management See Dick’s talk Increase federation usage The most usual application Boost privacy Only provide an IP to access resources Enhance user experience Resolvers and deep-linking Expanding applicability WS-based interfaces and non-Web clients
17 th TF-EMC2. Lyon, February 2011 A Proposal for REFEDS Funding The goals Remote federated proxy administration Centralized configuration of proxy meshes Non-Web clients in third party WS environments Neutral link resolution and deep linking The technologies EZProxy Apache2 proxy capabilities The players: WAYF and RedIRIS