Nicole Roy

SENIOR DIRECTOR OF INFRASTRUCTURE, OPERATIONS AND INFORMATION SECURITY, INTERNET2 TRUST AND IDENTITY SERVICES

Nicole Roy

Nicole Roy is Senior Director for Infrastructure, Operations and Information Security for the trust and identity services that Internet2 and InCommon deliver to our communities.

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Working Group Recommends Continued InCommon Investment in OpenID Federation

Reading Time: 2 minutesFollowing two years of investigation into the future of federated trust and a community consultation, the Profiling OpenID Federation for Research and Education (PORE) Working Group has released its Recommendation for Continued InCommon Investment in OpenID Federation. This recommendation addresses an important strategic need for InCommon’s engagement now, while standards and profiles are being shaped internationally. To ensure its ongoing interoperability with global academic federations, InCommon has a key role to play in enabling the research and education (R&E) community to take advantage of this technology.  OpenID Federation represents the most viable path forward for delivering a crypto-agile, extensible trust […]

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OpenID Federation 30-Day Community Consultation is Now Open

Reading Time: 2 minutesHelp Shape the Future of The InCommon Federation The Profiling OpenID Federation for Research and Education (PORE) working group spent two years investigating the future of federated trust in our community. Now, they are ready for feedback. The group – chartered by Internet2’s Community Architecture Committee for Trust and Identity (CACTI) – has released its draft recommendation, and we need your help.  From Study to Engagement The PORE recommendation calls on InCommon to commit resources to advancing OpenID Federation as foundational infrastructure for next-generation trust services. After extensive technical investigation — including deep dives into the OpenID Federation 1.0 specification, […]

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Let’s Check Our Credentials

New InCommon Working Group Explores Next-Generation Credentials Trust Frameworks The Internet2 Community Architecture Committee for Trust and Identity (CACTI) is continuing the work started last year with the community’s initial exploration of possible uses for what CACTI calls “next-generation credentials”: Credentials which exist within a new wallet-based ecosystem that positions users at the center of the digital identity landscape, empowering them with control and insight which they have not previously had over who, what, and when aspects of their digital identity are used. Within this context, CACTI seeks to understand the role of a federation operator, like InCommon, in this […]

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CACTI Working Group Identifies Four Key Characteristics of a Next-Generation Credential Ecosystem (and 30+ Use Cases)

Reading Time: 5 minutesConsider these scenarios: While these use-cases are performed today using legacy methods spanning the gamut from use of plastic student ID cards, metal keys, and paper transcripts, which must be physically presented or used, to electronic methods, including shipping large documents around the network, none of the present electronic solutions puts the student, faculty, or staff member in a position to play a critical (and privacy-preserving) role in the decision making process. As the landscape of electronic identity shifts away from highly centralized, federated web single-single-on infrastructures to a user-centric identity ecosystem, members of the InCommon and REFEDS community wanted […]

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