The Value Proposition for Identity Federations
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Date
2017-05
Authors
Phillips, Chris
Lynch, Lucy
Harris, Nicole
Marks, Heath
Brennan, Joni
Flanagan, Heather
Harding, Ann
Wierenga, Klaas
The Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC), University of Oregon
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Abstract
Education and research institutions around the world are facing significant resource challenges
that impact their ability to offer a modern collaborative environment. Campus infrastructure,
from the network (both wired and wireless) up through identity management, needs to support
inter-institutional collaboration on the part of their students, faculty. In order to understand the
layers of costs and benefits involved in local, regional, and global collaboration, campus CIOs
and IT staff must understand the value proposition for a stronger network, richer services, and a
solid identity management infrastructure. In particular, establishing an identity federation to help
support the global engagement needs to have clear value at the local level as well as the regional
or global level in order to win the necessary funding in the light of all the competing needs of the
institution.
This paper attempts to bring clarity to the questions that surround the heart of the value
proposition for identity federation. Why should identity management and federation be
prioritized? What arguments can campus CIOs use to sway the local and regional funding
agencies that already have so many demands? What needs to be done to establish an identity
federation, and have it interoperate with other identity federations around the world?
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17 pages
Keywords
campus CIOs, Research and Education Federations (REFEDS), identity management