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Project Moonshot is a Janet-led initiative, in partnership with the GÉANT project and others, to develop a single unifying technology for extending the benefits of federated identity to a broad range of non-Web services, including Cloud infrastructures, High Performance Computing & Grid infrastructures and other commonly deployed services including mail, file store, remote access and instant messaging. The goal of the technology is to enable the management of access to a broad range of services and applications, using a single technology and infrastructure. This is expected to significantly improve the delivery of these services by providing users with a common single sign-on, for both internal and external services. Service providers will be able to more easily offer their services to users from other organisations using a single common authentication mechanism. This will enhance the user’s experience, and reduce costs for those organisations supporting users, and delivering services to them. This group is for community of Moonshot users, whether you're new to the technology, you're currently evaluating and getting to grips with it, or you've deployed it. For the list of guidance available about Moonshot within this group, see the Start Here wiki page. Jisc Assent, the production service underpinned by the Moonshot technology, went live on 25th March 2015. For information on, or to join the Jisc Assent service, please visit http://www.jisc.ac.uk/assent

Moonshot briefing recording now available

6 September 2013 at 5:06pm

On 14 November 2012 Janet hosted an online briefing on Moonshot, providing information on use cases, benefits, deployment requirements and introducing the Janet Moonshot Service Pilot that will launch in April 2013.

The briefing was recorded and is now available to watch at http://webmedia.company.ja.net/content/presentations/shared/moonshotob/

Audio and slides from the event are also available to download from the same link.

If you have any comments or questions regarding this briefing please post a comment below or use the moonshot-community@jiscmail.ac.uk list.