Kantara Federation Interop Teleconference

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Leif, John, some others getting together in Maastricht to discuss plans for metadata infra. Recognition on commercial side that we need something done to scale. Commercial sector has different issues and roles for the parties that need to be examined. SAAS vendors beginning to explore what it might take to interop with federations like InCommon. More than metadata is involved in discussions, such as how accounts are handled, making things more dynamic, etc.

Scott: would a Ping-based federation service work with other impls?

John: Sure, we see both the need for making Ping Fed itself work better with metadata, but also making a service available for others. We have a widget for PingFederate that consumes metadata and updates the partner DB with info on entities, certs, etc.

Good discussions underway among Ping, Google, Salesforce, MS. Mix in OIX, OpenID Connect, account chooser / discovery issues, all of this is in the picture.

 5. AOB 

Colin: Any comments on Canadian Govt guidelines on Identity Assurance?

John: haven't read, will put on future agenda

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