JISC

Federating the Next Generation

Abstract

UK federation Service Enhancement and Policy Development

The UK federation recently celebrated its 3rd birthday. Now that the service is established, a number of enhancements are being made, from improving the end user experience to increasing technical integrity. In addition to these enhancements are a number of potential policy developments in the areas of membership eligibility, international collaboration and broadening participation. This talk will focus on recent and upcoming developments to the UK federation service.

Presenter

Mark Tysom

Mark Tysom manages the Middleware Operations Group at JANET(UK). The group is currently responsible for the operation and delivery of the JANET Roaming (eduroam) and UK federation services. Before moving to this operational role, Mark worked within the team responsible for rolling out the UK federation at JANET(UK).