aim roadmap service provider seminar david orrell senior architect october 2010

AIM RoadmapService Provider SeminarDavid OrrellSenior Architect

October 2010

UK Federation

Just over 800 members (in Sept 2010)o Over 1100 entities (Identity Providers

and Service Providers)o 650 Identity Providerso 45% of IdPs use Eduserv

software/services

International Federations

27 international federations*o In education and research

About 1600 Identity ProvidersAlmost 2000 Service ProvidersAround 15.5m users

* Source: http://www.terena.org/activities/refeds/

Challenges ahead…

The user experience1

Challenges ahead…

The user experience2

Challenges ahead…

The user experience3

Challenges ahead…

What happens when stuff breaksDiagnostics, reporting etc …4

Challenges ahead…

Productise, integrate, uniteAppliances + cloud services5

Challenges ahead…

Keeping software up-to-dateEnsure you can interoperate6

OpenAthens LA

Identity providero Federates a user repository (eg. ActiveDirectory)

Run locally by an organisationSupplied as a VM ‘appliance’Just released version 2.1

Project ‘Monteverde’

Targeted for Identity ProvidersCloud-hosted infrastructure

① User access point② Identity management API

③ Complete hosted ‘stack’

OpenAthens SP

Service Provider integration kitMulti-protocol integration with Identity Providers

o SAML 1.1, 2.0, OpenID etc.

Currently version 1.3Version 2.0 GA early 2011

Manage service description

Create and view your configurations

Manage contact information

Add newfederations

Update service configuration

Simple software updates

Further ahead….

Service health-check

Alert about service problemsPre-emptively warn about well-known problemso Expired certificateo Clock drift

Available in version 2.1

Schedule regular checks

Test suite

Outcomes

www.openathens.net

david.orrell@eduserv.org.uk