OPENID - Extending Institutional Identity into External Services and Communities

Slide 1: OPENID - Extending Institutional Identity O P E Into External Services N I and Communities D Sean Mehan F Head of Integrated Technologies UHI O sean@smo.uhi.ac.uk R E D U 8/11/2007 - LONDON - EDUSERV 1

Slide 2: OPENID - Extending Institutional Identity O P E Into External Services N I and Communities D F O R E D U 8/11/2007 - LONDON - EDUSERV 1

Slide 3: The plan... O P E N • Motivations I D • Benefits • Risks F O • Alternative Scenarios R E D U 8/11/2007 - LONDON - EDUSERV 2

Slide 4: Motivations O P • There are many new and innovative E N services emerging on the Web. I • Multiple IDs are starting to effect larger D proportions of the online community. F • Students and staff are often clamouring to O utilize external services that are seen as R being better than institutionally provided ones. E D U 8/11/2007 - LONDON - EDUSERV 3

Slide 5: Opportunities I O P E N I • We can serve our users better, and give D them what they want by providing them with an externally useable ID that they can F use to access external services without O having yaa. R E D U 8/11/2007 - LONDON - EDUSERV 4

Slide 6: Opportunities II O P E • Integration point via ID to merge best of N breed (market led) services into I institutional framework. D • Allows for rich functionality / integrations F at the end of the ID pipe. O • Provides mechanism to mitigate risk of lsot R data for important processes. E D U 8/11/2007 - LONDON - EDUSERV 5

Slide 7: Opportunities III O P E • Allow for life long learning associations - N I services for students. D • Manages in a structured way delegation and F transfer through ID lifetime. O • SSO possibilities from infrastructural apps R for web 2.0 type mashups. E D U 8/11/2007 - LONDON - EDUSERV 6

Slide 8: O P E N I D F O R http://sourceforge.net/projects/guanxi/ E D U 8/11/2007 - LONDON - EDUSERV 7

Slide 9: Changes in mindset O P E N I • Institutions have to stop behaving in D bunkered fashion. • Understand web penetration into F O requirements for service provision. R E D U 8/11/2007 - LONDON - EDUSERV 8

Slide 10: Risks I O P E N • We get fooled and id theft occurs. I D • That shaky external service goes bust and we loose all of that assessment data that F we are legally responsible for. O • YAP emerges! R E D U 8/11/2007 - LONDON - EDUSERV 9

Slide 11: Risks II O P E N I • Your ID changes over time and we lose D you. • You drop your ID and there is no pointer F O to your land based ID. R E D U 8/11/2007 - LONDON - EDUSERV 10

Slide 12: Alternative Scenarios O P • Why don’t we just let the students come in E N with their own, established identities? I • http://seanskye.myopenid.com/ D • Many still are not net savvy. F • Data representation issues and O R (inter)national match for SIS. • ....Institutional bias in terms of trust... E D U 8/11/2007 - LONDON - EDUSERV 11

Slide 13: Summary I O P E • Its out there, institutions should not be N putting their heads in the sand. I D • It won’t be the final protocol, so don’t be precious about adopting it or adopting the F next one. O • It provides opportunities for integrations R with external services / communities E D U 8/11/2007 - LONDON - EDUSERV 12

Slide 14: Summary II O P E N I • Fits a more user-centric, Web 2.0 world. D • Provides opportunities to allow people to F retain IDs of choice post institutional O association. R E D U 8/11/2007 - LONDON - EDUSERV 13