Tao of Attributes

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Tao of Attributes
Tao (noun): the process of nature by which all things
change and which is to be followed for a life of harmony; the path of virtuous conduct.
things in the world of federated access are on a continuous path, are changing, and for us to be successful
we need to be in agreement on those changes - in harmony.
I am not Ken Klingenstein
member@institution.edu
member@institution.ac.uk
same space, different vocabulary
Federations in Education (and beyond!)
typically SAML based
typically technology neutral
access to publisher resources, 
learning environments, collaboration 
environments etc. etc. 
Australia
Canada
USA
Switzerland
New Zealand
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Croatia
France
Germany
Spain
Finland
Japan
Greece
Netherlands
UK
attributes = eduPerson
Federations Now
Member based, with institutions as IdPs 
Service Providers commercial, web2, internal
Federation both registers entities and distributes metadata
Some interfederations in place / being developed
Otherwise, join multiple federations
Different federations, different rules, different languages
(note to HSBC, you don't speak mine!)
Federations Moving Forward
More distributed
Metadata Aggregation 
not just at Federation
dealing with the mappings?
avoiding the mappings?
proliferation of attribute schemas
no source of attribute authority
BUT:
eduPersonEntitlement: http://www.jesus.org/groups/carseat=no
changing vs. static attributes
required always or just to board a plane?
eduPersonEntitlement: http://www.holiday.com/groups/carseat=no
“It’s the attributes, urn:mace:incommon:entitlement:clue:zero”,  deprecated…
Who Am I?
Number 6: Who are you?
Number 2: The new Number 2.
Number 6: Who is Number 1?
Number 2: You are Number 6.
Number 6: I am not a number, I am a free man. 
Making it work for the user
Metaphors such as InfoCard
GSA Workshop@ Tao of Attributes
September 28th and 29th
Watch this space...