International 

  • REFeds – www.refeds.org - https://refeds.terena.org/index.php/Main_Page Refeds is the newly created organization of international R&E federations. It is the key context in which R&E federations coordinate, share information, and advance federated identity. It is supported by contributions from several federations and ISOC.
  • Shibboleth Consortium - The Shibboleth Consortium is being formed to provide a long-term sustainable home for development of the Shibboleth software system. Charter members are the US, the UK, and Switzerland. In the next year, the Consortium will evolve into a larger partnership and look to align with another software foundation to amortize its overhead.
  • Interfederation
    • Peer Project - https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/PEER/Home - PEER is the first step on the path to interfederation., essential to grow federated identity to a global scale. PEER, a project funded by ISOC, will create a registry for federation metadata (and other identity approaches such as OpenId)
    • eduGain -- http://www.edugain.org/ eduGAIN is a European effort at interfederation. It is working hard to create a policy base for interfederation
    • Interfederation – in a mature federated world, interfederation will work across countries and across vertical sectors. The intent is to reuse code from PEER and policy from eduGAIN as the building blocks.
  • Virtual Organizations (VOs), E-Science (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Science) – Almost all countries participating in federated identity were originally motivated by serving the R&E needs of their communities. Now many are applying federation and access management back to the VO’s and E-Science groups. In the US, funded by an NSF grant, Internet2 is leading an effort called “Building from Bedrock”. (http://www.internet2.edu/bedrock/)
  • Additional organizations, projects

US Government

Corporate

  • "Traditional" publishers – We have worked closely with a number of major publishers, including Elsevier, EBSCO and others. We participate in NISO working groups as well.
  • Google – Google has provided funding support for Shibboleth and provided federated access to Google Apps. However, Google in more interested in capturing users with Google accounts than in leveraging external identity.
  • Facebook – no relationship and this is a gap
  • Microsoft – A generally positive relationship, with MS providing funding support for Shibboleth in the past, incorporating SAML into their product line, joining InCommon to offer Dreamspark to students and faculty, and creating federated options for Live@edu
    • Note the recent Microsoft announcement that they've killed CardSpace and are pursuing the use of u-prove "in the cloud" as well as in smartcards (.de) etc. Likely to have an effect on eID in the EU as well as US regional/state ID proof providers (DMV) - Lucy
  • Oracle – Oracle has included SAML in its product suite
  • Internet2 Cloud Demonstration Project

Other US Consortia 

  • JA-SIG – www.jasig.org - open source developer/deployer community, holding several projects – Sakai, uPortal, CAS, Bedeworks. We work closely with the individual projects to make sure that the I2 middleware work integrates with the project and we run Advanced CAMP – “Identity Services Summit” in concert with Jasig.
  • Kuali – www.kuali.org - open source developer/deployer community, focusing on enterprise administrative systems, including Financials, Student, grants management, and business continuity planning. We have worked with developers to build links between the I2 middleware and their efforts, insuring that the enterprise middleware core can serve both the administrative and academic/research missions.
  • EDUCAUSE – www.educause.edu - We run multiple activities with Educause, including a security task force, an identity management task force, and on-line webinars. The relationship has its ebbs and flows, but it is generally a strong one.
  • GENI

US regional interests

  • Statenets
  • K-12 
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