Access and Identity Management (AIM)

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Members of the research and education community within the United Kingdom regularly make use of various types of online services, including web-based e-resources, wireless network access, and cloud-based applications. Many of these services require authentication of a user's identity, and many additionally require the release of attributes relating to that identity for authorisation purposes. Access and Identity management technologies and services aim to fulfil this need for robust authentication and authorisation technologies.

Jisc either runs or is heavily involved with many major services offered to the UK R&E community in this space such as eduroam, the UK federation, Moonshot, and the Janet Certificate Service.

This group exists for those interested in AIM and trust and identity services to discuss the latest developments, keep track of goings-on, and participate in discussions about what the community needs in this area and what Jisc should be offering.

(Note that for eduroam, Moonshot, and the Janet Certificate Service specific discussions, these technologies have their own groups on this site).

To learn more about Jisc's AIM services, you can see the slides and video of an overview given at Networkshop42.

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Terena, the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association manages a number of Task Forces that allow groups of experts from NRENs, suppliers and institutions to undertake joint work in their common areas of interest.

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A recurrent theme of Identity Week (#I2identity13) was the use of social identities: their use as an ‘IdP of last resort’; their trustworthiness ("A Google Id is no better or worse than a Guest account at an institution" vs. “researchers have a problem with social identities as a cultural statement - they don't 'trust' [insert name of Social Network Provider]”); “Social logins should be thought of as external account management”.

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Last week Rhys and I were in Burlingame, near San Francisco, a town no longer just famous for having a Pez museum but now also known as the host of the first Internet2 Identity Week. Given the increasing interest in identity and access management, Internet 2 took the decision to strip all the AIM related content out of their Members Meeting and have a focussed Identity Week this Autumn.

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The first Tuesday of each month can normally find a mixture of commercial, government and other public sector people with an interest in identity management attending Open Identity Exchange / Identity Assurance Programme (OIX/IDAP) meetings. Convened by the Cabinet Office the main focus is to provide an update on the IDAP Alpha projects, but yesterday's was also a joint meeting with EEMA (the European Association for e-identity and security) and had a focus on Mobile and Identity.

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Co-design is an experiment to build on the way that Jisc already works with partner organisations, taking it to a deeper level. The five partner organisations have each identified issues that are proving difficult to manage within their particular areas of interest, and a number of these have been developed into projects to take forward.

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Although only the 2nd October, this month is already turning into a a very busy time for AIM related activities and news. As I'm typing this I am listening to the live stream from the VAMP/FIM4R/REFEDs meeting and wishing I was in Espoo. If, like me, you haven't made it to Finland you can catch up with what's happening at https://connect.funet.fi/vamp or by following #REFEDS and #FIM4R on Twitter.