It’s been a while since I wrote a blog piece – sorry, I’ve not had all that much to say of late! So I thought I would have a bit of a friday afternoon think and see if there was something loitering around in my brain. Lately work has been very process driven – the … Read more
A couple of people have asked me what consitutes a well designed login page. I’m really not an expert in this area, all I can tell you is what we have learnt from the UK federation WAYF redesign, the work Rod Widdowson has done for the Shibboleth Embedded Discovery Service and general good advice on … Read more
The concept of federated access management introduces the need for a user to be ‘returned’ to their institutional login page in order to be authenticated. The new Shibboleth releases have introduced some nice new ideas to help make this experience better for users, such as introducing co-branding with the SP. Unfortunately, quite a lot of … Read more
Yup, it’s another post about branding, and another post about eduID. Sorry 🙂 I’ve been having a lot of discussions recently with people about the ‘brand’ of eduID and that it causes some concern – mostly because of the word ‘brand’. I couldn’t agree more. I was thinking about it at the weekend and the … Read more
Whilst sitting in the tf-emc2 meeting today I have been having some idle thoughts about tiered login, and some of the issues that are still in my mind unanswered in this space. The problem for most service providers is simple – the user has to tell them what type of authentication they wish to use. … Read more
What sites would you like to see federated? I recently the sent the dynamic duo of @JISCMark and @rhys_s off to see the very nice people at SURFfederatie to see what they could learn from their domestication programme. SURFnet have been doing far more work than us on non-publisher services like Google Apps. Whilst there … Read more