1. National Federation Perspectives & Insights
Chris Phillips | October 1st, 2012 | Internet2 Fall Member Meeting | Philadelphia
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2. About CANARIE
Operates Canada’s ultra-
high-bandwidth research
network
• Connects one million users at
1,100 institutions, “big science”
facilities like TRIUMF, NEPTUNE,
CLS, SNOLAB, and to Compute
Canada HPC consortia
• 19,000km of fibre with a 40 Gbps
backbone
• Funds programs that enable
greater access to research data,
tools and peers and to stimulate
the ICT sector
Operator of the Canadian
Access Federation
• SAML federation based on
Shibboleth
• Canadian Eduroam 802.1x
wireless roaming operator
• eduGAIN participant
Primary investment
from Government of
Canada - $480 M since 1993
Map date: 29 May 2012
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3. Current CAF Services
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4. Vision for CAF
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5. This is what it feels like trying to collaborate….
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6. This is how we want it to feel.
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7. How?
Facilitate collaboration at the largest scale possible.
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8. How?
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Facilitate collaboration at the largest scale possible.
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9. Benefits
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10. Areas of Interest
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11. Non Web Signon
Common To Both:
• Underway in IETF standards body
• Require touch points at the client & server
• A (big) part of a larger environment
[1] http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-kitten-sasl-saml-ec/
[2] http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-abfab-aaa-saml/
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12. International Linkages are Critical
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13. International Federation Landscape
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14. How Federations Interconnect
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15. The Big Picture:
Collaboration & Interconnection
CAF
SP Idp
SP Idp
SP Idp
Special Interest Trust Groups
SP
• Efficient, least effort for SP/IdP
SP Idp
• Local fed incubates federation
aware apps
Higher Assurance
• SITG can leverage common
infrastructure, and overlay
Local Fed Local Fed
special attribute sets & specific
Idp SP Idp SP policies
SP SP Idp
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16. Chris.phillips@canarie.ca
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