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Cotswolds International Middleware Meeting
Upper Slaughter, UK, 14-15 October 2004
Slides partially by John Martin, JISC; pictures by Ken Kingenstein
Leading trust to Slaughter
Goals of the meeting
Attended by representatives from Australia, Finland,
Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, UK, US and CERN
Aims: to establish framework for further international collaboration
of authentication and authorisation systems, leading
to interoperable user mechanisms, and
to help other countries develop similar large-scale systems
Review of National Programmes (1)
Common features: Each programme was limited initially to one target
community; They recognised the need to inter-work with other
schemes in the future; They were supported by carefully prepared
documentation sets Little, or no, accounting had so far been
implemented;
Review of National Programmes (2)
Differences: ‘key actors’ differ (admin, IT centre, library) different administrative paradigms differences in the associated documentation and
formal agreements
Focus Issues for Discussion
Need to look beyond national schemes to global schemes
Inter-working of existing schemes Criteria for ‘peering’ of schemes Support for mobility of students and researchers Resource providers’ membership of schemes Inter-working with government (and other national)
schemes and the grid community And a bit about privacy, indemnification, VOs, etc.
Some conclusions
Successful inter-working will be possible, but some requirements
must be met:
The education scheme must:
support multiple levels of assurance
allow for the use of third party authentication services
recognise that the identity attributes may be stored separately
from the identities
The government or other national scheme must:
have good coverage of both nationals and foreign residents
have low (preferably zero) transaction charges
Leading trust from Slaughter
Actions: 1. The Cookbook
The cookbook should contain guidance on practical issues of setting up a scheme criteria for judging the quality of a scheme design of structures to underpin governance and
management examples of successful implementations
The cookbook should also help those countries planning to set up a scheme for the first time
It was agreed that the first version of the cookbook should be produced on a short time-scale by appointing an editor
Actions: 2. A Vehicle
The Development of a Vehicle for Linking Authentication Systems Together(super federation)
1 year project for a secretary (0.5 fte)