1. www.ja.net/roaming Copyright JNT Association 2006 The JANET Roaming Service

2. www.ja.net/roaming Copyright JNT Association 2006 Covering … Background The Location Independent Networking (LIN) trial The JANET Roaming service What the service provides Overview of the technology How it works in practice The eduroam federation Parallel international effort

3. www.ja.net/roaming Copyright JNT Association 2006 Background JANET Wireless Advisory Group (WAG) established May 2003 Develop a location independent networking (LIN) infrastructure to enable networks to support guest users in a transparent & secure manner Proof of concept tests carried out on RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Server) hierarchy

4. www.ja.net/roaming Copyright JNT Association 2006 Location Independent Networking (LIN) Trial January 2005 – January 2006 36 institutions in the UK Positive feedback from JANET community Transition to service

5. www.ja.net/roaming Copyright JNT Association 2006 Launched: end of April 2006 Resilient NRPS infrastructure Community support team fronted by JANET Customer Services Consultancy service Online documentation: deploying, using and supporting the service JANET Roaming is the UK element of the eduroam federation

6. www.ja.net/roaming Copyright JNT Association 2006 The service Enhances user mobility Provides hassle free guest network access Promotes single sign-on

7. www.ja.net/roaming Copyright JNT Association 2006 RADIUS Hierarchy Organisational RADIUS Proxy Server (ORPS) National RADIUS Proxy Server (NRPS) International RADIUS Proxy Server (IRPS)

8. www.ja.net/roaming Copyright JNT Association 2006 Federated Trust Model Participating institutions sign-up to the federation policy Institutions trust each other to keep their user databases up to date Network access is granted to a visitor after their credentials have been verified by their home institution

9. www.ja.net/roaming Copyright JNT Association 2006 For example… UKERNA ORPS University of Exeter ORPS JANET National RADIUS Proxy server (NRPS) Authenticator (AP or switch) User DB Visitor’s Username louiss@ukerna.ac.uk

10. www.ja.net/roaming Copyright JNT Association 2006 Eduroam federation 29 European countries plus Australia, Japan and Taiwan Based on the same technology (RADIUS) IRPS hosted in Denmark and the Netherlands on behalf of TERENA Enabling international roaming http://www.eduroam.org/

11. www.ja.net/roaming Copyright JNT Association 2006 University of Hertfordshire ORPS University of Hertfordshire ORPS UKERNA ORPS UKERNA ORPS University of Queensland ORPS University of Ballarat ORPS University of Ballarat ORPS International RADIUS Proxy Server (TERENA) International RADIUS Proxy Server (TERENA) UK National RADIUS Proxy Server UK National RADIUS Proxy Server Australian National RADIUS Proxy Server Australian National RADIUS Proxy Server Eduroam RADIUS Hierarchy Authentication Request Authentication Response

12. www.ja.net/roaming Copyright JNT Association 2006 Federation members

13. www.ja.net/roaming Copyright JNT Association 2006 FWNA (Federated Wireless Network Authentication) Internet2 working group Trial in progress Close collaboration between TERENA and Internet2 http://security.internet2.edu/fwna/ USA

14. www.ja.net/roaming Copyright JNT Association 2006 Questions? www.ja.net/roaming