Summary - schools event, 10th October, Church House Conference Centre, Westminster
The meeting was an opportunity for representatives from Regional Broadband Consortia, Local Authorities, Becta and JANET(UK) to discuss an agenda focussing on the implementation of federated access management in the schools sector. This proved to be an extremely well attended and constructive event. The overriding conclusion drawn from the meeting was that identity provision was best provided by aggregation at a regional level whereever possible.
All parties were urged to declare their intention to implement federated access management by joining the UK federation as a first step, ahead of technical deployment. It was felt that as more schools sector agents showed their commitment by signing up as identity providers, this would encourage service providers to assess the benefits of joining the UK federation .