Scope creep: stopping it before it starts

This morning we spent some time talking through the different levels to which the concept of a “Login” could be applied from

  • organisation: this could be a school, college or university
  • sector: HE, FE… education in general
  • public life: including such services as the NHS or Inland Revenue
  • private life: Facebook? Twitter? Google Mail?
  • the utopian view of identity where every person has only one and everything just works off that 🙂

Where to draw this line is obviously a very important decision and one we’ve not yet made. I have a feeling that we’re going to be using the expression “in an ideal world” an awful lot…

We discussed a lot more about the fleshing out the work-packages in the project and where to drop particular tasks into place as well as going over all the intricacies of how to manage identity within an organisation — more on that later…

Welcome!

Welcome to the Logins for life project blog!

The Logins for Life (L4L) project is a 15 month project from January 2010 – March 2011 which is part of the Access and Identity Management Programme funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).

The project documents such as the project plan and JISC reports will be published on http://www.kent.ac.uk/is/projects/loginsforlife/index.html.