Let's have a quick view on who's around in this task and what
| Who? | Where? | What? | Why here? | What else? | When? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWITCH, Switzerland | Programme Manager doing mainly identity stuff these days. With SWITCH for almost 3 decades. Prepare for things that might make it into production - or not. But preferably early enough to not get inadvertently overtaken by events and be ready to take informed decisions. | After two decades doing identity federations and more than one decade doing interfederation our community has achieved quite an impressive global identity infrastructure with an impressive governance framework to keep things going. "Distributed Identities", SSI and eID are the new kids on the block. They can either steal is the show and make us redundant or we can show them that it is much more fun to re-use our stuff and takes them further. I favour the latter. And would like to contribute to make it happen. | Cycling for fun and mobility | Mostly around for the rest of the year | |
| Niels van Dijk | SURF, The Netherlands | Technical Productmanager Trust and Identity. Mostly working on new stuff at SURF, currently including Wallets and SSI. Co-team lead of the WP5 Trust & Identity Incubator in the GEANT project. Also working in the DC4EU Lardge Scape Pilot and the EBSI-Vector project in the context of the EUDI. | I have been working at SURF(net) for almost 15 years, mostly creating new identity federation and research AAI services. As said, I mostly work on new stuff at SURF, trying to get some bearing on the usability and impact of wallets & SSI for our institutions and services. | Singing in a chamber choir and playing with all domotics mostly with the aim of getting my house and family more sustainable. | No big plans for the rest of the year so I should be available. |
| Nicolas Liampotis | GRNET, Greece | Working at GRNET as a Trust & Identity engineer. Working on Authentication & Authorisation Infrastructure services for enabling research communiting to access research data and services. Involved in the AARC project (coordinating the architecture work package during the second phase of the project, i.e. AARC2) which provided the AARC Blueprint Architecture (BPA) along with recommendations and techncal guidelines. Excited to contribute to the evolution of the AARC BPA in upcoming AARC T(h)REE. Also involved in the development of the OIDC frontend for the GEANT Core AAI Platform in the context of GN4-3 & GN5-1. | Interested to see how SSI and eIDs can fit into/evolve the current R&E ecosystem | Running. Would like to transition from road to trail running | Ready to participate and contribute mostly after September |
| Marcus Hardt | KIT, Germany | Senior Researcher at KIT. Working on solutions and architectures to boost Identitiy Management for research. We've transferred the AARC BPA results into the Helmholtz AAI and the upcoming National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) for country-wider university research infrastructures. We develop tools to improve OIDC usage on the commandline and for long-living use cases. OIDC-agent, mytoken, ssh-oidc are the essential developments. | SSI is probably a logical next step for OIDC. Anyhow, I want to make sure that our tools support SSI natively as early as possible: SSI for oidc-agent, SSI for SSH, ... | Diving, Photography, Cycling. | The rest of the year seems to be fully booked already ;] |
| Maarten Kremers | SURF, The Netherlands | Technical Product Manager Trust & Identity, doing identity stuff. Mostly time at the moment working as jack of all trades (aka workpackage lead) of the GN5-1 T&I workpackage. | Getting the outputs from this task as input for strategy and the other tasks | Walking and spinning. Learning both trombone and very recently bartitone horn | |
| Wolfgang Pempe | DFN, Germany | Team leader DFN-AAI, 12 years of experience in the operation of a (mesh) federation. Currently enganged in setting up an Identity & Access Management Basic Service for the National Research Data Infrastruture (together with Marcus and others), bridging between DFN-AAI and both the German School Federation VIDIS and the Digital Education Networking Infrastructure of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, and co-coordinating the development of the upcoming DFN edu-ID-Service. | Developing a plan on how to adopt, modify or extend a 'traditional' Identity Federation when the Wallet World comes upon us one day... | cooking (easy to overlook), cycling (not enough) and photography | whenever necessary |
| Esther Ruiz Ben | DFN, Germany | Working at DFN-AAI as IT architect. Currently focused on the development of the DFN-edu-ID. | Looking for tools to make distributed identities compatible with each other. Exploring adoption modes and ensuring user centricity. | Walking, swimming, contemplation. | From October 2023 whenever necessary |
| LRZ, Germany | Working at LRZ as a scientific researcher and interested in new technology in Web3, blockchain and wallets regarding to Digital Identity. I used to be a Software developer and familiar with SOA. I'm actually new in Digital Identity. Also, I am working in WP9 T2 as team leader of Software Review for 50% of my time. | I'm looking for an architecture that could make connection between different type of dependencies by Digital Identity | Walking, painting, Podcast listening | November 2023 | |
| KIFÜ, Hungary | Head of International R&D at KIFÜ and product owner of eduid.hu. Currenlty engaged to development of Identity & Access Management Services for the Hungarian Schoolnet and integration to eduid.hu, also bridging between eduid.hu and hungarian digital citizenship initiative. I am also contributing to EOSC AAI architecture discussion and the evolution of the AARC BPA in upcoming AARC TREE. | Discussion points and strategy for hungarian digital citizenship initiative and EUDI Wallets. Develop policies for integrating educational and research sector for EUDI Walet initiative. Some hints for implementation at international (eduGAIN) or national level. | walking, dancing |