[OpenID] Eduroam?

[Brian Kissel]

OK thanks Nate, sounds like no further inquiries or actions make sense.  Appreciate the quick feedback.

Cheers,

Brian
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From: Nate Klingenstein [mailto:ndk at internet2.edu]
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 4:18 PM
To: Brian Kissel
Cc: openid-general at lists.openid.net
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Eduroam?

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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