Review of OpenID

Title

Review of OpenID

Duration

December 2007 - August 2008

Summary

The project will combine structured interviews, technical evaluation and working demonstrators to provide material for a report which will address the following key points:

• What OpenID is and is not
• What other institutions have already been doing with it
• What applications can be foreseen in the short and medium term
• How OpenID relates to the UK Access Management Federation
• Whether OpenID may be applicable to services using licensed data
• How the forthcoming integration of Microsoft CardSpace with OpenID 2.0 and Active Directory might affect the large number of institutions that use Active Directory as a component of their identity management
• Whether there is a foreseeable path from institutionally-managed identities to institutions providing trusted attributes about public, user-centric identities.

The report will also consider whether, and to what extent, further work in this area could usefully be directed. The project is due to complete and publish its findings in the Summer of 2008.

Project Deliverables

• Descriptions of potential use cases
• Report describing evaluation of potential use cases
• Application use case demonstrators
• Report of user case trials
• Project web site
• Presentation at Networkshop 36 (Glasgow, April 2008)
• Final report

EDINA Contact

Sandy Shaw
s.shaw@ed.ac.uk
Tel: 0131 650 4988

Funders

JISC

Partnerships

ISSRG, University of Kent (contact: Prof David Chadwick)

Links

OpenID