E-Authentication Pilot
To what extent does the federal government support federated access? InCommon has been working with US agencies and with the federal government's E-Authentication initiative. InCommon and E-Auth have been working on a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and hope to have several services federated by the end of the summer.
The Department of Education will be among the first to have applications available. Initially, these will be the low Level of Assurance (LOA)/low use applications. The intent is to move to the low LOA/high use realm. The National Institutes of Health have signed an MoU with InCommon and will soon federate a few lower risk applications.