COBWEB Authentication Workshop at GEO-IX

This workshop was open to all attendees at GEO-IX. It took place in the Buenos Aires room between 1000 and 1200 on Wednesday 21 November 2012.

Authentication here is concerned with establishing that claims made concerning a user who is attempting to use a particular online resource are authentic, ie, true. Typically, this involves confirming a subjects identity. Being able to do this securely with a high level of assurance is essential in many Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) scenarios, eg, where we need to protect privacy or control access to valuable data.

Security is an important topic in the development of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) that is often neglected or misunderstood and which often ends up presenting an insurmountable barrier preventing SDI initiatives from meeting their initial ambition.

Through the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) led Architecture Implementation Pilots, GEOSS has been examining the potential of access management federation technology for controlling access to protected resources where required.

This workshop will outline how access management federation technology, principally the OASIS standard Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), may be applied in a GEOSS context.

After hearing initial plans and discussion, expressions of interest in participating in an access management federation implementation will be sought as appropriate.

This work is being conducted as part of the 4 year (2012-2016) Citizen Observatory Web (COBWEB) project which has received funding from the European Unions Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement no: 308513.

COBWEB Authentication Workshop at GEO-IX

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