Survey to ask federations about costs for LoA

General overview

• Do you have a LoA (schema) in place and which one?
• Do you have contracts with IdPs?
• Do you require an Identity Management Practice Statement? Do you enforce it?
• Do you require any audits/documentations for IdPs?

Level of assurance

• Have you made any cost analysis for introducing (a higher) LoA? Is a higher LoA want from IdPs?
• Any experiences, which costs IdPs have to make in order to achieve a specific LoA?
• Impacts on adopting LoA

Persons asked

• Mikael Linden, Haka
• Wolfgang Pempe, DFN-AAI
• Leif Johansson, SWAMID
• Tom Scavo, InCommon
• David Simonsen, WAYF

Results

• YES (and support of eduPersonAssurance attribute) - Do you have a LoA (schema) in place and which one?
• YES - Do you have contracts with IdPs?
• YES and NO, mostly in mother tongue - Do you require an Identity Management Practice Statement? Do you enforce it?
• Mostly only documentation, not enforced, some have self-audits or pairwise audits; NemID as national two-factor-authentication mechanism at WAYF - Do you require any audits/documentations for IdPs?
• NO and NO - Have you made any cost analysis for introducing (a higher) LoA? Is a higher LoA want from IdPs?
• NO - Any experiences, which costs IdPs have to make in order to achieve a specific LoA?
• Between none till high costs + High burden on the SP side to handle multiple LoA’s - in terms of knowledge needed and changing technical installations to support multi-LoA-policies. - Impacts on adopting LoA