This session by Nate Klingenstein.<\/p>\n
Today’s Federated Identity Challenges:<\/p>\n
‘The Cardiff Giant’ – a statue discovered in Cardiff (New York). Copied by P.T. Barnum (covertly) and toured. This all showed:<\/p>\n
Identity is big business – e.g. Doubleclick (acquired by Google) – serving personalised advertising.<\/p>\n
Universities house both applications and identities. They are the natural ‘home’ of much user data – e.g. Courses, titles, grades. Universities also host applications – but increasingly these may not be hosted locally. The important players in Academic Identity are:<\/p>\n
What do Governments want?<\/p>\n
What do Faculty want?<\/p>\n
What do Commercial Applications want?<\/p>\n
What do Other Applications want?<\/p>\n
What do Users want?<\/p>\n
Users understand the difference between a professional account and a personal account, work app and personal app – and can generally select between them. Privacy and security are consistently rated as very important – especially in coutnries with weak privacy laws. However LSE study demonstrated – convenience often wins in practice anyway.<\/p>\n
Consumer Identity Today<\/p>\n
Facebook Connect – on Huffington Post, http:\/\/money.cnn.com<\/a> (the latter only supports Facebook connect for commenting). Some interesting stats on various mechanism for logging into the Typepad blogging platform at http:\/\/blog.leahculver.com\/2009\/11\/log-in-or-sign-up-with-openid.html<\/a><\/p>\n Convergence between Educational Identity and Consumer Identity – It’s already happening! How soon will your students ask for a ‘Facebook Connect’ login to your VLE?<\/p>\n The level of assurance gravitates towards the lowest common denominator – often basically an email address that doesn’t ‘bounce’. Social Networks include a large level of assurance, as you have lots of people ‘vouching’ for you (although questions about how much this is worth, it definitely isn’t worthless). Maybe ‘strongly vetted’ ID is not what Universities should try to provide. Instead we may want to focus on the attributes:<\/p>\n If consumers opt for Facebook, perhaps this is an opportunity for Universities to stop worrying about the ‘discovery’ problem – even if we worry about the implications of Facebook managing this instead.<\/p>\n Preparing for those futures:<\/p>\n Current course excellent – we are doing most of the right things – even if for the attributes and policies alone which is 9\/10 the effort and value<\/p>\n\n
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