1. tf-emc meeting: 28th / 29th March 2007
UK Federation Update
Nicole Harris
Programme Manager

2. Predicted Adoption Adopter Type Adoption Milestone Percentage
No. Institutions
innovators
01/04/2004
0.30% 2
early adopters
31/03/2007 6% 39
early majority (1)
01/09/2007
13% 83
early majority (2)
01/09/2008
20%
128
late majority
01/09/2009
32.30%
207
laggards
not set
28.40%
182

3. Federation Stats: 28th March 2007
45 MEMBERS.
113 ENTITIES (two dual in nature):
50 Identity Providers
65 Service Providers
27 ‘Core’ Institutional Members.
No measurement of end-user coverage.

4. Federation Development Roadmap
Areas of importance as identified through community consultation:
Liaison with other Federations.
Policy-lite Service Providers.
Improve Discovery.
‘Confederation’.
Support for more Authentication Solutions.
Support for Multiple Identities.
Levels of Assurance / Grid interoperation.
Virtual Organisations.
Orphanages.
eduRoam / Federation interoperation.

5. Strategic Development Roadmap
Identity Management, Identity Management, Identity Management:
Position Paper by May 2007.
Identity Management Project:
Identity Orphanages.
‘Centre of Excellence’ for access EDINA.
Virtual Organisations.
Levels of Assurance.
Moving from supporting the institution to supporting the user?
e-assessment, e-portfolio, lifelong learning, social software.

6. Interesting Stuff
Federated Access Management Animation:
‘Institutional Preparedness’ Study:
Upcoming: Business Case Toolkit for Institutions on federated access management.
Publisher Liaison Work: more tomorrow!