I’ve spent a lot of time recently asking people if they would be interested in extending the scope of the Terena Server Certificate Service within the UK. Currently, JANET are offering straight server certs and are now looking in to wilcard certs. The final part of the story is personal certs. The standard answers i … Read more
This morning at #tnc2010 we kick off with a meeting on eduGain. In the past, I have always assumed that the UK would not be able to participate in eduGain due to its rather onerous entry level – mandatory attributes simply don’t fly in the UK. I still have some concerns, and think the lighterweight … Read more
This morning is the morning of big hitters for those of us in the identity world and we start with Kim Cameron, who starts by defining the word ‘kludge’ and saying it is an ideal way to describe the world of digital identity. We have created an identity system online that is fundamentally difficult to … Read more
How do we develop a new concept of datacenter to really change the way we use the cloud? Anthony Joseph has a view that 1 person should be able to develop, deploy and operate a next generation internet application. Some of the processes that are being looked at are predicting demand, automatically adding / dropping … Read more
Email is not the forefront of technology, and of no apparent use to the community of users that are currently growing up. So says Hannes Lubich at the opening plenary of #tnc2010. Students are simply not worried about losing control of personal data – but do they really understand the impact of reputation within the … Read more
We kick off a mamouth day on federations with David Simonsen talking about the place for federation operators. He uses the telephone as a metaphor – we used to need to talk to an operator before connecting to other people via phone. This is very similar to the role currently played by federations. It immediately … Read more