This session highlights the role of National Research and Educational Networks (NRENs) as local trust anchors in identity federations. As trusted third parties, Identity federations support both local and cross-border inter-federation use cases. At the international level, eduGAIN provides an inter-federation service built on top of the trust layer provided by identity federations, and it allows students and researchers to access global services and resources for research and education. We will showcase advanced use cases enabled by eduGAIN, such as MyAcademicID, a service that supports student mobility all across Europe, and MyAccessID, a service dedicated to give access to HPC systems. Finally we will discuss the policy and technological evolution of eduGAIN as trust infrastructure, with a focus on the implementation of the OpenID Federation standard for eduGAIN, and the support for wallets and digital credentials.
Panels participants/speakers: - Pål Axelsson (SUNET) eduGAIN Steering Committee Chair - Maarten Kremers (SURF) GEANT Project Trust and Identity Work Package leader - Davide Vaghetti (GARR) eduGAIN Service Owner
