Towards Interconnecting the Nordic Identity Federations

In recent years, several identity federations have been established in higher education around the world. The federations have been national, but first attempts to interconnect national federations have taken place. This presentation describes the current initiative with regard to interconnecting the Nordic federations. Special attention is paid to policy issues of the cross-federation.

Speakers

• Ingrid Melve, UNINETT (NO)

Authors

• Walter M. Tveter, Center for Information Technology, University of Oslo
• Ingrid Melve, UNINETT, Norway
• Mikael Linden, CSC the Finnish IT Center for Science, Finland