RA21 - Resource Access for the 21st Century

[Paul Dixon]

Take a look at the Privacy Preserving Persistent WAYF pilot project for an
idea of where things might be headed
http://ra21.org/index.php/pilot-programs/p3-wayf-pilot/

The main ideas currently in play are

   - Making it easier to identify which IdP a user could use with the
   addition of hints into federation metadata (e.g. email domain or IP
   addresses). The UK Access Management Federation has already added these
   elements to their MDUI recommendations
   https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/content/Documents/MDUIRecommendations
   - Remembering the user's recent IdP choices so that when you visit a
   resource, it can immediately offer you the opportunity to login with your
   institution

There is an update seminar on Dec 8th in London which is still open for
registration if anyone is interested - see
https://ra21.org/index.php/ra21-events/

Kind regards,

Paul Dixon
LibLynx LLC


On 30 November 2017 at 09:09, Manuel Haim <haim at hrz.uni-marburg.de> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> recently, I was informed by our library team about the project "RA21 -
> Resource Access for the 21st Century" (https://ra21.org), which was
> formed by an association of well-known publishers (e.g. Elsevier,
> SpringerNature, Wiley) in order to get rid of IP-based authentication.
>
> On the one hand, it seems that they just "[seek] to get wider adoption
> of Shibboleth for /all/ users", see
> https://discuss.folio.org/t/ra21-projects-impact-on-user-management/454
>
> On the other hand, there may be a problem with privacy, as the login
> process is centralized by providing their own cloud-wide (custom?) WAYF
> service: "why don't publishers ask each other instead of all asking the
> user", see page 35ff. of
> https://ra21.org/index.php/ra21-events/ra21workshop-april2017-final-2/
>
> Does anybody have an idea in which direction RA21 goes?
>
> Kind regards,
> Manuel Haim
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