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Many research collaborations as well as campus services need a solution to deal with guest identity, as in many cases not all users are members of the academic Identity Federations.

In several cases these users are working for a commercial company that has a relation with the research community or the campus. Rather then force these users to use e.g. social accounts, or have accounts created locally, this activity investigates if and how the existing IdM within the companies may be used as external IdPs.

One angle to investigate here is a possible collaboration with commercial providers of hosted solutions like e.g. Ping Identity and OKTA to discuss if we can connect to their proxies for shared benefit to our and their customers.

• support public - private collaboration which is core to scientific collaborations. 
• allow institutions to more easily offer courses to corporate
• would make corporate IdP users first class citizens; 
• would potentially improve LoA of guest login; 
• would enhance eduGAIN as the source of federated identity in R&E

• (Perceived) legal issues at the companies disallowing this
• Unable to contact right people at PING, OKTA, etc.

• A report on the feasibility of and model for using corporate Identity in R&E federations
• Optionally a test implementation, e.g. in collaboration with eduTEAMS