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- They have been working on the Multifactor Authentication Interoperability Profile, so their Federation applications can request multifactor without having to insist on a particular technology, it is working well and their community has provided good feedback. Currently the discussion has moved to an international group, REFEDS Research and Education Federations, which plans to start a public consultation period on the topic.
- Incommon Baseline Practices now includes 4 statements for Identity Providers, 5 statements for Service Providers and 4 statements for Federation Operators. The draft Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation is open for public consultation, available at the Incommon wiki: https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/InCAssurance/Baseline+Expectations+for+Trust+in+Federation
- They have started to work with REFEDS on Assurance Framework of SIRTFI, Security Incident Response Trust Framework for Federated Identity.
Sirtfi framework document: https://refeds.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Sirtfi-1.0.pdf Website: https://refeds.org/sirtfi
- Incommon has recently joined a REFEDS Working Group to study Assurance, what it means in modern terms.
- They are part of the global interfederation service eduGAIN, where Federation Operators register themselves and their metadata, and then eduGAIN combines all the national registries and republishes them in one large file.
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