[OpenID] Eduroam?

[Nate Klingenstein]

Brian,

I've been peripherally involved with eduroam for several years, and am  
extensively familiar with eduroam and all of the principals involved  
in its development and roll out, both internationally and domestically.

I'm not sure it has any overlap with OpenID, because it's exclusively  
been devoted to federated wireless network authentication,  
particularly using RADIUS and 802.1X.  I don't think that's a use case  
that's of great interest to the OpenID community.

The U.S. had been a very slow adopter of eduroam for whatever  
indigenous reasons exist.  That's begun to change largely through  
initiative of individual campuses and our enabling friends in the  
great white north of Canada.  If eduroam is bridged into the U.S., it  
would be natural and nice for InCommon to serve as the trust  
framework.  Conversations are underway.

Bridging SAML to RADIUS has been the subject of several dismal  
research projects over the years, and may be a future goal of  
eduroam.  It's definitely well off the radar today, though.  I'm sure  
similarly dismal research projects could be done with OpenID if anyone  
is interested, but RADIUS is about as legacy as protocols get.

Thanks for your curiosity on this,
Nate.

On Jan 22, 2010, at 11:59 PM, Brian Kissel wrote:

> Anyone have experience with Eduroam or know what their relationship  
> is with InCommons?
>
> http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Service-Lets-Professors-Log-On/20697/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian

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