Speaker
Christos Kanellopoulos
(GRNET)
Description
During the last decade, national Identity Federations for Research and Education have emerged globally. There is a growing interest from different research communities in using federated access, although some challenges still exists that prevent the wide usage of this approach. Federation operators have invested significant efforts to enhance federated technologies and policies to support community requirements; and whilst some requirements get implemented, new requirements emerge.
The AARC EC-funded project which started in May 2015, aims to define building blocks and policy best practices to enable users to seamlessly access research and e-infrastructure services and to support new research collaboration to build interoperable AAIs.
This talks aims to provide an overview on the user-driven developments in Europe and how AARC is addressing them. Obviously research and collaboration is global; it is therefore essential to think global (even if funding is local) to ensure that relevant activities are synchronized internationally.
