Update SURFnet Bart Kerver TF-EMC2-meeting, Utrecht, 17 Oktober 2006

High-quality Internet for higher education and research 2 SURFnet Federation project Main components: –describe use-cases for Federated IdM; –what services; –policies; –technology;

High-quality Internet for higher education and research 3 SURFnet’s role for IdM Awareness for Identity Management (IdM) –Reports on IdM studies on current state of IdM in HE in.NL; Scenarios to realize (upgrade) IdM; Federated IdM (business drivers, solutions…). –Workshops on IdM –Workgroup for Library Access Management (‘BAM’) Development and support of open source product A-Select (development, organize OS, pilots, architecture, deployments) Stimulate deployment of A-Select (200k+ users high-ed)

High-quality Internet for higher education and research 4 Federation initiatives -.NL KennisnetPublic librarieseduPoortSURFnet Register usersYes, centrallyNo, federatedBoth local and federatedFederated only Authenticate usersyes Both local and federatedFederated only Centralized attributesYesNoBoth local and federatedFederated only WAYFnoyesnoYes SSOyesnoyesYes, federated Multi federation protocolNo Yes: A-Select and SAML Con-federationPossibly Short term ProductA-SelectA-Select ‘Proxy’A-Select ‘Cross’A-Select ‘Cross/SAML’ User typeeveryone Research/HE only service provider central components for federation Identity provider

High-quality Internet for higher education and research 5 SURFnet Federation (2006) Build a service “SURFnet Federatie” (SNF) –technical implementation (based on A-Select); –define(d): policies, contracts, legal organization?…; –organize service providers (SP); –support identity providers (IdP); –Manuals and website (end-user, IdP,SP, helpdesk etc.)

High-quality Internet for higher education and research 6 SURFnet Federation (2007) –stimulate deployment and join-in workshops; install fests for both IdP and SP. –con-federate (‘confederate’: both NL and EU) –support standards (SAML, WS*,eduGAIN) –translate assertions enabling federared SSO ( SAML <> A-Select <> WSF <> eduGAIN) –pilots/work on federated (de-)provisioning –monitoring/tracking/tracing within federation –home organization for SURFnet specific services? –Technology scouting on MW for SOA/grid-services

High-quality Internet for higher education and research 7 SURFnet Federation Policies Start simple: low level entry Contract for IdP part of SURFnet contract? Contract for all SP’s standardized; If an IdP is also SP, just one contract. IdPs make best efforts: –to issue credentials to members only –to ensure accuracy of assertions SPs agree to respect the privacy of users –don't aggregate attributes or disclose to others –report on use of federation

High-quality Internet for higher education and research 8 Implementation Linux platform (cluster of 3 nodes, scalable setup); A-Select v1.5 (authN, attributes, SSO, SAML); GlobalSign (using SCS); University of Tilburg MySQL Benelux SURFnet Helpdesk

High-quality Internet for higher education and research 9 SURFnet Federation

High-quality Internet for higher education and research 10 usersidentitiescentral federation componentsresources (SAML) SAML

High-quality Internet for higher education and research 11 Pilots with SURFnet Federation Pilots with 3 publishers and Elsevier SD Booking system for VC-equipment (appl. by Switch) Ellips project (language studies) SURFgroepen ( – MS Sharepointwww.surfgroepen.nl On the horizon (short term) -SURFnetdiensten (webshop); -3TU – 3 technical universities collaborating; -VideoPortal; -Institution specific usage stats (on services); -SURFstat (network stats);

High-quality Internet for higher education and research 12 A-Select developments Support for SAML1.1 (OpenSAML based) used for WAYF and IdP IdP: –Browser/Post WebSSO profile –Browser/Artifact WebSSO profile (type 0001 & 0002) –SAML Subject Queries (Attribute, Authentication, Authorization) Enhanced WAYF IdP discovery for SP Anonymity of users based on WS* Soon start with: –WS* (ADFS) implementation –pilot with MS CardSpace –interoperability with Oracle and Novell (IdP, SP) –Looking into Liberty support

High-quality Internet for higher education and research 13 SURFnet Statistics on SCS 2006 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug SepTotal Certs accepted Certs refused SCS institutes (unique)

High-quality Internet for higher education and research 14 SURFnet Detective Meanwhile… SURFnet Detective has reached status/level of production- service as of May ‘06.