[OpenID] Eduroam?

[Joost Van Dijk]

On 1/23/10 1:10 AM, Brian Kissel wrote:
> We've been talking to InCommons about OpenID support and if Eduroam
> are truly well penetrated in Europe, might be worth talking with
> them, just checking to see if anyone has knowledge about them.

eduroam is based on a confederation of national identity federations,
typically operated by a country's National Research and Education
Network (NREN).

Apart from eduroam, many NRENs also operate an identity federation based
on SAML (or similar protocols) for web-based SSO, much like InCommon in
the US.

Some of those NRENs are bridging their SAML-based identity federations
with OpenID. For example RedIRIS, the Spanish NREN, has such a service
operational, and SURFnet, the dutch NREN, is experimenting with a
similar service.

So, to get back to your question: eduroam may not be an obvious match
with OpenID considering their different domains (secure network access
vs Web SSO), but if you are interested in finding out what is happening
with OpenID in relation to identity federations from European NRENs, it
may indeed be worthwhile to exchange experiences (and funnily enough,
you may very well end up talking to the same people that are involved in
eduroam).

Cheers,
--
Joost van Dijk
SURFnet
(mailing to this list over an eduroam connected link)



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> From: Chris Messina [mailto:chris.messina at gmail.com] Sent: Friday,
> January 22, 2010 4:05 PM To: Brian Kissel Cc:
> openid-general at lists.openid.net Subject: Re: [OpenID] Eduroam?
> 
> Never heard of it...
> 
> It looks like it's a fairly involved system, involving an installed
> IEEE 802.1X client to access the eduroam wifi:
> 
> http://www.eduroam.org/downloads/docs/advisory/eduroamOT-user-advisory-001.pdf
>
> 
Is there some connection to OpenID or are you just generally interested?
> 
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Brian Kissel
> <bkissel at janrain.com<mailto:bkissel at janrain.com>> 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
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