This Task integrates developments that go beyond or significantly disrupt the current models, technologies or approaches to trust and identity that are in operation in the eduGAIN platform.
It aims to widen the engagement of federated identity approaches to other sectors, including e-Government and potential social identity providers, allowing greater engagement by individuals and citizen scientists in research.
Key objectives
The key objectives of Task 3 are:
T3.1 Federated identity, the next generation
- Carry out development based on OpenID Connect (OIDC), specifically for extending the standard to make OIDC "federation and interfederation capable" (i.e. OIDC metadata, discovery, etc.), including engaging with and contributing to the IETF and developing a potential OIDC profile for eduGAIN.
- Develop user-centric identity federation: user-managed access.
- Engage with federations on the principle of user-managed access, not only technically, but also reflecting the principle that the user is the resource owner and should therefore be in control of their own “data”.
- Develop pilots based on eduKEEP- and eduID-like approaches, currently at TRL 6–8 in various national developments, to enhance to scale for international interoperability.
T3.2 Two-factor authentication in eduGAIN
T3.3 Services to support mobile federated identity
T3.4 Cross-sector interoperability (eduGAIN)
Deliverables and Milestones
DONE Deliverable D9.3: Best Practice for User Centric Federated Identity
GREEN Milestone M9.8: Support of OIDC in Shibboleth
People and Workplan
Information on the people in the TrustTech can be found at the TrustTech Team information pages.