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EduRoam is an international, location independent wireless network, allowing mobility between participants wireless infrastructure with seamless user authentication and enforcement of local security policy. Through EduRoam Australia staff and students from participating Australian members of AARNet and GrangeNet can gain network access at both their home institution or another participating institution in Australia or Europe without any administrative burden or added complexities. Other participating countries include: the Netherlands, UK, Greece, Czech Republic, Spain, Portugal, Croatia, Slovenia, Denmark, Poland, Latvia, Finland and Norway.

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XrML - eXtensible rights Markup Language - provides a universal method for specifying rights and issuing conditions (licenses) associated with the use and protection of content.

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This final report of the Learner Identity Management Framework (LIMF) Project was submitted to AICTEC in March 2006. It identifies the key objectives of a LIMF as: addressing issues associated with learner mobility and smoothing learner transitions; assisting in the detection learners of risk of disengagement; supporting enhanced longitudinal research; supporting evaluation of targeted programs; and supporting ePortfolios / learner-controlled personal data.

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The Liberty Alliance Project was formed in September 2001 to develop open standards for federated network identity management and identity-based services. Its goals are to ensure interoperability, support privacy, and promote adoption of its specifications, guidelines and best practices.

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In order to promote growth and use of the "MAMS Testbed Federation", MAMS proposed a mini-grant scheme to DEST which provides funding assistance for HE institutions to join the testbed federation as an IdP and SP. As the attractiveness of a Federation is based on the value of available services, the emphasis was on encouraging HE institutions to join as SPs. This page provides information about successful applicants, wioth details of their proposals and projects. The following round-1 proposals were chosen as recipients of mini-grant funding: AARNet; Griffith University; Nanostructural Analysis Network Organisation; University of Queensland; Queensland University of Technology.

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The primary goal of the NMI-EDIT Consortium, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI), is to improve the productivity of the research and education community through development, testing, and dissemination of architectures, software, and practices in the areas of identity and access management. Development efforts comprise a coordinated set of core middleware tools in the areas of identity and access management architectures, standards for deployments, related directory schemas, and tools. Major projects include the Signet privilege and Grouper group management, and Middleware Diagnostic tools, and the Shibboleth technology. Begun in late 2001, NMI funded the design, development, testing, and deployment of middleware, a key enabling technology upon which customized applications are built. Specialized NMI teams defined open-source, open-architecture standards that are creating important new avenues of online collaboration and resource sharing.

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The XACML Technical Committee will define a core XML schema for representing authorization and entitlement policies, also called XACML. It will identify bindings to existing protocols (e.g., XPath, LDAP), and define new protocols, if necessary, as means of accessing and communicating the policies. XACML is expected to address fine grained control of authorized activities, the effect of characteristics of the access requestor, the protocol over which the request is made, authorization based on classes of activities, and content introspection (i.e. authorization based on both the requestor and potentially attribute values within the target where the values of the attributes may not be known to the policy writer). XACML is also expected to suggest a policy authorization model to guide implementers of the authorization mechanism.

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The OAuth protocol enables websites or applications (Consumers) to access Protected Resources from a web service (Service Provider) via an API, without requiring Users to disclose their Service Provider credentials to the Consumers. More generally, OAuth creates a freely-implementable and generic methodology for API authentication.

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The Open Data Definition (ODD) is an XML based data portability format designed to be simple and flexible. It consists of an XML framework plus an extension format defining the keywords, classes and required items of metadata. ODD takes the view that existing data portability standards are, despite being powerful, much too complex for widespread adoption. The format is made up of a handful of core components with minimal nesting, which allows the support for import/export, syndication and live streaming.

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This is a decentralized identity system, not attached to a particular company. An OpenID identity is a URL. You can have multiple identities in the same way you can have multiple URLs. OpenID provides a way to prove that you own a URL (identity). It does this without sharing passwords or email addresses, or any profile exchange component at all. The profile is your identity URL. Recipients of your identity can then learn more about you from any public, semantically interesting documents linked thereunder (FOAF, RSS, Atom, vCARD, etc.).