Access and Identity Management (AIM)

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Members of the research and education community within the United Kingdom regularly make use of various types of online services, including web-based e-resources, wireless network access, and cloud-based applications. Many of these services require authentication of a user's identity, and many additionally require the release of attributes relating to that identity for authorisation purposes. Access and Identity management technologies and services aim to fulfil this need for robust authentication and authorisation technologies.

Jisc either runs or is heavily involved with many major services offered to the UK R&E community in this space such as eduroam, the UK federation, Moonshot, and the Janet Certificate Service.

This group exists for those interested in AIM and trust and identity services to discuss the latest developments, keep track of goings-on, and participate in discussions about what the community needs in this area and what Jisc should be offering.

(Note that for eduroam, Moonshot, and the Janet Certificate Service specific discussions, these technologies have their own groups on this site).

To learn more about Jisc's AIM services, you can see the slides and video of an overview given at Networkshop42.

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Jisc Access and Identity Management Strategy

In the last half of 2013, we undertook a community consultation to gather feedback on a draft AIM Strategy and Plan, outlining Jisc's high level objectives to continue the evolution of access and identity management for the UK education and research sectors and clearly stating targets of how the strategy will be met over the coming 2 years.

Originally published in January 2014, the Plan has been updated to show our progression against the published targets. 

AIM strategy
John Chapman
14/07/14 5.07pm
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Want to save money on Post-Its? Then use good IdM.

Today was the final meeting of the first phase of the Jisc co-design Identity Management Taskforce. This activity is in the Jisc AIM Strategy and Plan (www.tinyurl.com/jiscaim) and has the objective of addressing "the social and political barriers to good identity management" - not technology. Discussing identity management without mentioning technologies is surprisingly tricky.

John Chapman
08/04/14 6.04pm
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REFEDS and Pez

Last week Rhys and I were in Burlingame, near San Francisco, a town no longer just famous for having a Pez museum but now also known as the host of the first Internet2 Identity Week. Given the increasing interest in identity and access management, Internet 2 took the decision to strip all the AIM related content out of their Members Meeting and have a focussed Identity Week this Autumn.

John Chapman
20/11/13 9.11am
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Solving Federated Access in Indianapolis

This week is the Internet2 Technology Exchange Meeting in downtown Indianapolis. As is the way with these big international meetings there are a number of co-located meetings including the REFEDS (https://refeds.org/) meeting and there has been a lot of discussion of relevant topics for the Jisc community so I've provided some links and brief notes here. If you'd rather jump straight to the presentations you can get to them at https://refeds.org/meetings/oct14/.
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REFEDS
John Chapman
27/10/14 11.10am
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OIX Mobile and Identity - from AQAA to Zapp (via Moshi Monsters)

The first Tuesday of each month can normally find a mixture of commercial, government and other public sector people with an interest in identity management attending Open Identity Exchange / Identity Assurance Programme (OIX/IDAP) meetings. Convened by the Cabinet Office the main focus is to provide an update on the IDAP Alpha projects, but yesterday's was also a joint meeting with EEMA (the European Association for e-identity and security) and had a focus on Mobile and Identity.

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IDAP
John Chapman
06/11/13 4.11pm
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