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- (Carnegie Mellon University, Russell J. Yount <rjy@cmu.edu>)
We are working towards using Incommon Federation, OpenID and other future social authentication systems to provide access for what we are terming "Low Level Of Assurance" LLOA access. Our first application to use this is for parental accounts. We would like to enable access to student billing information to parent whos child have enabled permission for access.
The model we have decided on will send an email at the student's request to a parent that invites the parent to register with using one of a number of OpenID providers or Incommon Federation identity providers. We are using this model as we believe students are more likely to know their parents email address than know their parents InCommon or OpenId identity.
The implementation will be done with gateway service which will provide a CMU identities within local CMU shibboleth federation which are the translation of the OpenID or other provider's identity. InCommon federation identities will be used directly.
We hope to use outside idenity providers for access to a number of other service in the future. These may include guest network access, preadmission students....
- (use case 2)