Baseline Expectations for Identity Providers and Service ProvidersWednesday, January 24, 2018 Download the slides (PDF) Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation will have an impact on all InCommon Federation participants. The first of three webinars will cover the Identity Provider and Service Provider expectations, as well as the plans for developing the community consensus and dispute resolutions processes. Details and connection information are here. Connection Information Slide sharing and audio via Adobe Connect: Back-up phone bridge: |
This year, the National Science Foundation’s proposal solicitation for its Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*) program has new InCommon-related requirements. These requirements help ensure that campus researchers can successfully use their campus credentials to access research related services available via global federation (InCommon and eduGain). The requirements touch on support for Baseline Expectations, as well as the Research & Scholarship Category of Service Providers. See this blog post for details on meeting the NSF requirements. |
Under the guidance of the InCommon Assurance Advisory Committee, the InCommon community has adopted a set of Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation. The intent is to:
In addition to the expectations themselves, the community has adopted processes by which InCommon Participants and the InCommon Federation operator keep metadata up to date and keep one-another accountable, including:
The core Baseline Expectations document establishes three short lists of expectations expressed at a high level, one for each of three types of Federation actor: an Identity Provider, a Service Provider, and a Federation Operator.
Baseline Expectations Foundational Document
Baseline Implementation Processes (document in final approval stages)
Implementing Baseline Expectations in InCommon Metadata (this document translates Baseline Expectations into an initial set of requirements for InCommon metadata)
Webinar explaining the expectations (Oct. 5, 2016)
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Webinar recording (Adobe Connect)
Webinar explaining implementation (July 19, 2017)
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View the recorded webinar (Adobe Connect)