Accelerating Events in Internet Identity and Privacy

Slide 1:Accelerating Events in Internet Identity and Privacy

Dr. Ken Klingenstein, Senior Director, Middleware and Security, Internet2 Technologist, University of Colorado at Boulder

Slide 2:Topics

Internet identity update Technology updates Privacy and its implications Federations US � InCommon and Soup Planning the future of InCommon Government, Liberty Alliance International Applications update Collaboration apps Open source kumbaya A plea for CNI community participation

Slide 3:Internet identity

Federated identity Enterprise centric, exponentially growing, privacy preserving, rich attribute mechanisms Requires lawyers, infrastructure, etc User centric identity P2P, rapidly growing, light-weight Marketplace is fractured; products are getting heavier to deal with privacy, attributes, etc. Unifying layers emerging � Cardspace, Higgins

Slide 4:Federated identity

Convergence around SAML 2.0 � even MS Exponential growth in national and international R&E sectors Emerging verticals in the automobile industry, real-estate, government, medical Policy convergence for LOA, basic attributes (eduPerson), but all else, including interfederation, remains to be developed Application use growing rapidly Visibility is about to increase significantly through end-user interactions

Slide 5:User-centric identity

Driven by social networking {Facebook, MySpace, etc} and {Google, AOL, MSN}, growing rapidly Relatively lightweight to implement for both application developers and identity providers Separates unique identifier/authentication and trust (reputation systems, etc.) Fractured by lack of standards, vying corporate interests, lack of relying parties, etc. OpenId, Facebook Connect, Google Connect, AOL

Slide 6:Unifying the user experience

Among various identity providers, including P2P, self-issued, federated Need to manage discovery, authentication, and attribute release Cardspace, Higgins, uApprove, etc. Consistent metaphors, different technical approaches Starting to deploy

Slide 7:Trust, Identity and the Internet

ISOC initiative to introduce trust and identity-leveraged capabilities to many RFC�s and protocols Acknowledges the assumptions of the original protocols about the fine nature of our friends on the Internet and the subsequent realities http://www.isoc.org/isoc/mission/initiative/trust.shtml First target area is DKIM; subsequent targets include SIP and firewall traversal

Slide 8:Privacy

A broad and complex term, like security, encompassing many different themes Privacy and personal data release A function of national, EU, and local policy International transactions common and complex Separates into �required for transaction� and �needs consent�

Slide 9:EU Privacy Laws

Art 29 WG overarching but lots of confusion below IP address EPTID � a non-correlating, opaque but persistent identifier For privacy and state � e.g. searches, web blogs Critical to federated privacy

Slide 10:Some recommendations

Identity Providers should Construct pseudonymous identifier values in ways that conceal as far as possible the identity of the user, for example by using one-way hash functions and providing different values to each service provider; Declare that they will not disclose the identity of the person to which a particular identifier value was assigned, other than when required by law to do so. In particular, reports of misuse or other problems should be investigated by the Identity Provider, who is anyway most likely to be able to hold the user to account, and not the Service Provider. Service Providers should Not collect personally identifying information from a user who was otherwise only identified by a pseudonymous identifier; Not seek to obtain information linking a pseudonymous identifier to a user from any other source; in particular they should not aggregate information collected from different services; Provide evidence to Identity Providers to permit them to investigate and deal with any misuse or other problem in the use of the service.

Slide 11:Federation Update

R&E federations sprouting at national, state, regional, university system, library alliance, and elsewhere Federated identity extensive in business Many bilateral outsourced relationships Hub and spoke Multilateral relationships growing in some verticals

Slide 12:Federation Killer Apps

Content access � Elsevier, OCLC, JSTOR, iTunes Government access � NIH ERA, CTSA, NSF and research.gov Access to collaboration tools � wikis, moodle, foodle Roaming network access Outsourced services � National Student Clearing House, student travel, plagarism, testing, travel accounting MS Dreamspark

Slide 13:InCommon

Over 110 members and growing steadily More than two million �users� Most of the major research institutions New types of members Non usual suspects � Lafayette, NITLE, Univ of Mary Washington, etc. National Institute of Health, soon NSF and research.gov Energy Labs, ESnet, TeraGrid MS, Apple, soon Google Student service providers Steering Committee chaired by Clair Goldsmith of Univ of Texas; Technical Committee chaired by Renee Shuey of Penn State

Slide 14:InCommon Update

Growth is quite strong; doubled in size for the fifth year straight� Potential size estimates (pre-interfederation) could grow > 5,000; revenue stream�. MoU for federal agencies to join in the works Silver profile approved Major planning effort on the future of InCommon now underway, including governance, community served, pricing and packaging principles, business models

Slide 15:Grist for InCommon background

Comparison to other national R&E federations Budget, basics Strength-weakness-opportunities-threats analysis Status of soup Growth and expense/revenue projections Effect of interfederation and soup on projections Other business opportunities

Slide 16:Principles to be established

Community served Business opportunities Governance and representation Pricing and packaging principles � membership models, working with soup, etc. Charge by cost or charge by value ------------- The relationship between InCommon and Internet2

Slide 17:Federation Soup

Within the US, federations happening in many ways � state, university system, library, regional, etc Triage among federations needs to cross several communities � higher ed, k-12, government agencies, MS, etc. Common issues include business models, legal models, LOA and attributes, user experience Initial gathering in Seattle in June Web site is at https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/FederationSoup/Home

Slide 18:Government and EAuthentication

NIH prime mover � large scale cancer trials, electronic grants management, genome database access GSA promoting community of interest federations and interfederation NSF, research.gov and the Department of Ed

Slide 19:International federations

More than 25 national federations; Several countries at 100% coverage, including Norway, Switzerland, Finland; communities served varies somewhat by country, but all are multi-application and include HE UK intends a single federation for HE and Further Education ~ tens of millions of users EU-wide identity effort now rolling out - IDABC and the Stork Project (www.eid-stork.eu) Key issues around EU Privacy and the EPTID

Slide 20:REfeds meeting

Utrecht Dec 4-5 All federations reporting tipping point phenomena Key issues include building the business, communities served, attribute development, interfederation, application integration, working with Liberty Alliance, international privacy, etc Integration with e-Science, CLARIN, etc. http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-emc2/meetings/12/index.html

Slide 21:Next Steps

Learning the business of federation Attributes redux LOA Application enablement Buckets of metadata EGov Support of virtual organizations and collaborations Outreach to other sectors Interfederation

Slide 22:Interfederation

Happening in some quadrants Kalmar Union among Nordic countries US-UK Interfederation agreement Space but no time yet at Liberty Alliance for cross-sector and corporate engagement REfeds will continue as default interfed setting and discussion forum for R&E specific issues (VO�s, attributes, etc.)

Slide 23:COmanage

COmanage can provide authentication and authorization services (group membership, privilege management, etc) to apps Domesticated applications currently include wiki, listproc, Jira, Subversion, Al Fresco. Soon to add audioconferencing, IM and chat rooms, EC2, Fedora, web-based file share, etc. Can be launched as an image in the Amazon cloud. Not �collaboration in a box�. More collaboration in a fully permeable membrane. The �stand-alone� can be readily replumbed to be completely integrated into enterprise, federated or other attribute ecosystems as they develop Uses Shibboleth and Grouper and�

Slide 24:Collaboration and Federated Identity

Two powerful forces being leveraged the rise of federated identity the bloom in collaboration tools, most particularly in the Web 2.0 space but including file shares, email list procs, etc Collaboration management platforms provide identity services to �domesticated� applications that externalize their identity management dimensions to an general identity/group/privilege/etc repository (LDAP, MySQL, etc.) Results in user and collaboration centric identity, not tool-based identity COmanage is a collaboration management platform, supported in part by a NSF OCI grant, being developed by the Internet2 community, with Stanford as a lead institution

Slide 25:Integration with Open Source Efforts

Federated versions of Fedora and DSpace abound; domesticated versions to come Sakai, Moodle, etc also federated Kuali and Rice/KIM are under active discussion Asterisk, Openwiki, other collaboration tools

Slide 26:Plea for CNI Community Participation

User interface and design Privacy managers Helping users to manage the metadata of collaboration

Slide 27:User interface

Two levels � presentation and mental maps Presentation � accommodating disabilities, multilingual and multicultural requirements Mental maps � helping navigate between roles, privileges Early engagement with fluid

Slide 28:Privacy managers

Helping users to understand least privilege, minimal release, state and privacy Training vendors and content providers on what to ask for

Slide 29:Helping users to manage the metadata of collaboration

Roles, privileges and access management in virtual organizations Metadata across tools - tagging Metadata across content Archiving and provenance