UK Access Management Federation
for Education and Research
The UK federation is operated by Jisc and provides a single solution to accessing online resources and services for education and research. Here is some information on how it works and its benefits.
Eligible organisations are invited to join the current membership.
Latest news
UK Federation Town Hall Week
Posted on Monday, 1 June 2020
We’d hoped to do this in person, but obvious reasons mean we are running virtual UK federation "Town Hall" sessions across a whole week of 8th-13th June (at lunch times 1-2pm), using Zoom. We’ll be covering a variety of topics and plan on the sessions being not entirely didactic. So please come armed with questions. If there is anything you would like to see covered, please email me (mark.williams@jisc.ac.uk) in the next week and we’ll see if we can add it in.
Topics
- Baseline in the UK federation
- CoC, R&S, Sirtfi & other attributes
- Shibboleth health check lessons
- Publisher round table: Ask anything
- SSO & aspects of content piracy
- Delegated authentication
- Readiness for Shibboleth v.4
- VerifID: Commercial Student Verification
- About T&I Consultancy
R&S attribute support for COVID researchers
Posted on Friday, 27 March 2020
How your institution can support COVID research with federated access Research and Scholarship attribute release
Chrome Samesite issue (Last updated 31 January)
Posted on Thursday, 30 January 2020
The way web browsers handle cookies is changing soon. This can have an impact on some configurations of Identity Providers and, Service Providers. The impact may vary from no impact to 'Single Sign On stops working' (users are challenged for username/password every time) to 'entirely not working' depending on the configuration of your IdP or SP and the flow of HTTP messages between them. Please ensure this message is passed on to someone in your organisation who can check the impact on your service The updated UK federation webinar on this issue can be found here: https://youtu.be/avpj1FFXMZA
We have stopped warning about expiring self-signed trust fabric certificates
Posted on Thursday, 31 October 2019
The UK federation follows the SAML Metadata Interoperability Profile. This profile requires that a trust fabric certificate in metadata is treated only as a convenient wrapper for a cryptographic public key, with none of the additional semantics normally associated with certificates, such as a check against its expiry date.