1. Kalmar2 The Union is Greater than the Sum of its Parts

• Ingrid Melve, UNINETT CTO NORDUnet2009 September 16 2009, Copenhagen

2. Kalmar Union no 1

Union of Denmark, Sweden, Norway and parts of Finland (1397 - 1530)

3. The great ruler Queen Margrete the first 4. No wars between us since 1721 5. Kalmar2 offers

single login with your university user/password

6. use of web resources available in other Nordic countries 7. Nordic integration of authentication systems for education and research 8. students access to services in other countries 9. staff and researchers access to services abroad 10. enhanced services for eScience,education and research 11. What is Kalmar2 collaboration

Memorandum of Understanding signed by all national research networks and federations

12. Technical requirements

MUST support SAML2

13. Alignment of attributes Operational issues

Aggregate metadata and exchange

14. Support same protocol flavor saml2int.org 15. What is special about Kalmar2?

First large scale international cross-federation for the academic community

16. First cross-federation with support for multiple federation architectures: centralized (Feide), hybrid (WAYF), proxy (Iceland via WAYF) and full distributed mesh (SWAMID, Haka) 17. First public international cross-federation policy 18. First international multi-vendorinterconnections 19. It works! 20. Kalmar2 is for web resources

eLearning

Learning Management Services

21. Collaboration services eScience

Grids

22. Portals 23. Collaboration services Outsourced services

Web cloud, other cloud

Library and other information resources

Databases

24. Citation servers Commercial services

Student discounts

25. How to Kalmarize a service

You have a web something, would like to grant access across borders

Information: what attributes do I need? (anonymous or email, name, unique identifier)

26. Technical: install SAML2.0 software (Shibboleth, simpleSAMLphp or other), upload metadata 27. Administrative: talk to your national federation ... and the users get access from any university in the Nordic area 28. Technical issues

Web SSO profile

29. Single Log Out 30. Metadata management 31. Signing keys for all involved parties 32. Provide background information about

Attribute schemas

33. Campus Identity Management policy Support multiple federation architectures

Multi vendor solution

34. Tested interoperability 35. Current Kalmar2 services

Foodle (planning meetings, simple polls)

36. OpenWiki (wiki with group support) 37. University of Turku Moodle (e-learning) 38. Feide RnD blog 39. Secure mail (Feide) 40. Attribute release test service (Haka) 41. SWAMID login test service 42. Translation portal for software (Feide) 43. 44. Kalmar2 services (2009)

Other web sites that plan Kalmar2-integration

Online dictionarieswww.ordbogen.com

45. NIAS Asia Portal, Nordic Institute for Asian Studies 46. Scientific writing toolwww.scribo.dk 47. Helsinki University LMS: moodle.helsinki.fi 48. Grid in 5 min: Short Lived Certificate Service, federation login granting GRID certificates 49. Kalmar2

Easy access to Nordic services from any other participating party

50. Based on existing infrastructure

Use passwords across borders

51. Reuse federation infrastructure How to use (end user perspective)

Go to service

52. Get directed to your university 53. Log in with your local username/password 54. Access is granted, you are happy 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. Why Kalmar2

Strengthen Nordic collaboration, based on existing infrastructure

60. User friendly and privacy preserving 61. Nordic infrastructure for eScience 62. Sharing resources 63. We are blazing the path! 64. User friendly, with privacy

Tested and tried user friendly login

6 years operational practice

65. extensive user interface testing Building on existing infrastructure

Federations and local Identity Management

Existing username/password

Local username from your home university

66. Best practice for Identity Management 67. Nordic infrastructure for eScience

Shared resources

GRID infrastructure

68. e-learning 69. portals Nordic institutes and Nordic Master Studies

Cross-border access

eScience across borders

Collaboration

70. Sharing resources

Federation infrastructures

SWAMID, WAYF, Haka, Feide

Preparing the ground for cloud computing

Same infrastructure support for outsourced and local services

71. Security domains and identity domains overlap Making most of our resources

Nordic area is a clever little playerin the scientific field

72. Why not global interconnects?

Europe may follow Kalmar2

eduGAIN or eduID

High requirements for local identity management

We are used to talking together

73. We know we can agree on policy We are blazing the path

Not all federations have our experience

74. Not all federations arewilling to interconnect 75. Building critical infrastructure

www.kalmar2.org

76. Questions and remarks

[email_address]

77. [email_address] Thank you to Nordforsk who supported Kalmar2 78. Next steps

You go back home and kalmarize your resources

79. We share resources