Committees: JISC Integrated Information Environment committee
Programmes: Access Management Transition programme
Themes: Access management
http://www.ukfederation.org.uk
The UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research
is funded by JISC and Becta, and operated by
UKERNA. The federation provides a single solution to access
online resources and services for education and research.
Organisations interested in joining the federation should consider the many
benefits it
has to offer. They may wish to join as an Identity Provider (IdP) (eg. a
university or local authority), or as a Service Provider (SP), (eg. a
publisher or content provider). In some cases, organisations may wish to
join as both.
Shibboleth: The federation uses the standards-based Shibboleth software, developed
by the Internet2 community in the United States. Shibboleth defines a
common framework for access management that is being adopted by education
and commercial sectors across the world. See more information on how it
works.
Eligible
organisations were invited to join the federation from 30 November
2006.