Recommendations of the 2023 SAFIRE Participants Forum Meeting
On Thursday 21 September, we held a SAFIRE Participants’ Forum meeting. This post summarises the significant outcome of that meeting.
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News Archive
News and announcements concerning the South African Identity Federation.
SARAO joins SAFIRE
The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory have concluded technical integration, and are now a fully functioning identity provider. Welcome SARAO!
SAFIRE Participants Forum Meeting: 21 September
On Thursday 21 September, we’ll be convening a meeting of the SAFIRE Participants Forum. The preliminary agenda for this meeting contains a single item: the future governance of the South African Identity Federation.
Venue: ZA·REN Week ‘23 Conference, Protea Hotel Breakwater Lodge, Cape Town Date: 21 September 2023 Time: 13:00-15:00 …
Upgrade of SAFIRE federation hub on 30 June
On Friday 30 June we’ll be performing a major version upgrade of the software that’s at the core of SAFIRE’s federation hub. Although no downtime is expected, you can expect the following:
All users will need to re-authenticate the first time they access a service after the upgrade; There will be cosmetic changes to the user interface, particularly in the information transfer notice. …
T&I Info Sharing Sessions
TENET’s trust & identity team run regular information sharing sessions covering SAFIRE and other services. A full schedule of forthcoming events is available at events.tenet.ac.za.
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Support for REFEDS MFA
On the evening of Tuesday 11 January, we will deploy a number of changes to the SAFIRE Federation hub to allow for the bi-directional signalling of REFEDS MFA. No downtime is expected, and we do not anticipate any impact on any service- or identity-provider that does not currently support such signalling.
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UNIVEN joins SAFIRE
The University of Venda have signed the Participation Agreement and completed the technical integration. UNIVEN are now a fully functioning identity provider. Welcome UNIVEN!
SPU joins SAFIRE
Sol Plaatje University have signed the Participation Agreement, as well as completed the technical integration and are now a fully functioning identity provider in SAFIRE. Welcome SPU!
SAFIRE baseline changes
Following a period of consultation and starting from 31 March 2021, we’ve made several changes to SAFIRE’s idp- & sp-requirements and to the minimum attributes required for participation.
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Announcing the safire-libs@lists mailing list
For some time, a key use case for SAFIRE has been integration with various library services such as publishers and data providers. Despite their importance to the federation, thus far we’ve not had a communication channel aimed explicitly at systems librarians and library staff making these integrations work. That’s about to change
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