Launching Kalmar2

It’s my pleasure to inform you that Kalmar Union, the
confederation of Nordic academic identity federations,
is operational and today published in the NORDUnet conference.

Press release:
http://www.kalmar2.org/kalmar2web/kalmar2_is_open.html

Kalmar currently covers all Danish and Norwegian universities,
6 Swedish universities and 1 Finnish university. 10
Service Providers are registered to the confederation.

NORDUnet2009 presentation with lots of help from Mikael Linden, David Simonsen and Andreas Solberg.

Kalmar2 press release in Finland

Kalmar eIdentity Union press release from CSC

Federation agreements on interconnecting

Federation soup next steps outlines some of the issues involved in interconnecting federations in the federation soup.

Liberty Alliance has published Deployment Guidelines for Policy Decision Makers
and a Legal Framework on federation agreements, with information about different federation types.

At the Terena conference TNC2007 we publised a paper on inter-federation agreements, Towards Interconnecting the Nordic Identity Federations with the Kalmar eIdentity Union as our case. The Kalmar eIdentity Union puts in place an inter-federation between the academic federations in the Nordic countries.

A kinder gentler federation agreement proposed by someone from the industry side.