[LINK] RFC: Cloud Computing

[grove at zeta.org.au]

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, ARTHUR,Evan (Dr) wrote:

> Rachel wrote:  <<One thing that Clouds will open up is the new realms of Identity Management.
>
> The international research community has been dealing with an aspect of this problem space for some time, namely how to allow users from a wide range of heterogeneous environments to interact with data and applications in a secure and authenticated manner.  A single source of identification/authorisation for researchers in multiple universities/research institutions in multiple countries is never going to happen. Hence work on federated identity management.  Australian work on this issue has been funded through the Australian Access Federation http://project.aaf.edu.au/
>
> In the schools area, there are interesting challenges to enable seamless access to leaning materials and classroom tools held in various systems around the country and to permit more effective tracking of the educational achievements of students as they move through various schooling settings.  A while back we did some research on a Learner Identity Management Framework (to which Roger was a major contributor).  Details are at:  http://www.aictec.edu.au/aictec/go/home/about/cache/offonce/pid/171


Thanks Evan, 
I didn't want to mention AAF (in the hope someone else would!)


I have been instrumental as the technical lead in getting <some_uni>
to finally join the AAF as production IDP etc ;)

I am also currently involved in an Identity Management project 
here as we try to cast our net and gather identities together 
and find out who is who....

At <some_uni>, there is talk of "clouds" and a number of projects 
will soon arise that will require some of the above eg shibbolising 
cloud based apps and so on ;)


Cheers....


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