Post on 20-Aug-2015
OPENID
FOR EDU 8/11/2007 - LONDON - EDUSERV
OPENID - Extending Institutional Identity
Into External Services and Communities
Sean MehanHead of Integrated Technologies
UHIsean@smo.uhi.ac.uk
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OPENID - Extending Institutional Identity
Into External Services and Communities
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The plan...
• Motivations
• Benefits
• Risks
• Alternative Scenarios
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Motivations
• There are many new and innovative services emerging on the Web.
• Multiple IDs are starting to effect larger proportions of the online community.
• Students and staff are often clamouring to utilize external services that are seen as being better than institutionally provided ones.
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Opportunities I
• We can serve our users better, and give them what they want by providing them with an externally useable ID that they can use to access external services without having yaa.
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Opportunities II
• Integration point via ID to merge best of breed (market led) services into institutional framework.
• Allows for rich functionality / integrations at the end of the ID pipe.
• Provides mechanism to mitigate risk of lsot data for important processes.
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Opportunities III
• Allow for life long learning associations - services for students.
• Manages in a structured way delegation and transfer through ID lifetime.
• SSO possibilities from infrastructural apps for web 2.0 type mashups.
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/guanxi/
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Changes in mindset
• Institutions have to stop behaving in bunkered fashion.
• Understand web penetration into requirements for service provision.
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Risks I
• We get fooled and id theft occurs.
• That shaky external service goes bust and we loose all of that assessment data that we are legally responsible for.
• YAP emerges!
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Risks II
• Your ID changes over time and we lose you.
• You drop your ID and there is no pointer to your land based ID.
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Alternative Scenarios
• Why don’t we just let the students come in with their own, established identities?
• http://seanskye.myopenid.com/
• Many still are not net savvy.
• Data representation issues and (inter)national match for SIS.
• ....Institutional bias in terms of trust...
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Summary I
• Its out there, institutions should not be putting their heads in the sand.
• It won’t be the final protocol, so don’t be precious about adopting it or adopting the next one.
• It provides opportunities for integrations with external services / communities
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Summary II
• Fits a more user-centric, Web 2.0 world.
• Provides opportunities to allow people to retain IDs of choice post institutional association.
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