Dear Colleague,

We would value your insights as we explore the future of access to research and scholarly services.

SHARE YOUR OPINIONS IN A SURVEY

More than 60 countries collaboratively operate a global federated identity infrastructure that enables scholars, researchers, students, and staff to login to academic resources and services. This infrastructure helps to enable research and scholarly activities by giving users a simple single sign-on experience using their home institution credentials.

The international organisation representing this global effort, called REFEDS https://refeds.org/, is undertaking a strategic review of how the global identity infrastructure affects individuals and what circumstances may arise over the next 10-15 years that operators of this global infrastructure should anticipate and prepare for. Please share your input via the following survey, which should take about 20 minutes:

https://forms.gle/MdZM3FXN6nsj7Krn8

If this link is not accessible, please contact federation2-survey@lists.refeds.org mailto:federation2-survey@lists.refeds.org.

OR PARTICIPATE IN A FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSION

If you would prefer to share your feedback interactively, we are hosting live discussions via video conference based on the survey questions, at the times below. Join us by connecting to https://internet2.zoom.us/j/8853848902at the times listed below (and at this calendar) https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=of1k8hh8q6ibkfgt7gh4efa40g%40group.calendar.google.com.

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Kinshasa

New York,

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Some additional times may be offered in the second half of May: check the Working Group https://wiki.refeds.org/display/GROUPS/Federation+2.0page for more details.

AND SHARE WITH OTHERS

We also ask that you forward this request to others you think may have a perspective on this topic, either as a user, a planner, or an enabler.

We hope to have your responses by Friday, May 10.

Thank you very much!

Tom Barton, University of Chicago and Internet2

Judith Bush, OCLC

Co-chairs, REFEDS Federation 2.0 Working Group https://wiki.refeds.org/display/GROUPS/Federation+2.0

Federated Identity infrastructure: https://library.educause.edu/resources/2019/1/7-things-you-should-know-about...

Scenario planning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scenario_planning

Working group charter: https://wiki.refeds.org/display/GROUPS/Federation+2.0

Calendar for conversations: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=of1k8hh8q6ibkfgt7gh4efa40g%40...

Direct link to survey:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdDQrff3R3sELqDuZlYSufKhN7FUVv0r_Cm...