Ian Young has
worked in the area of systems software (operating systems, compilers and
computer networking) for nearly four decades. Since 2004, he has worked on the
problem of federated identity and federated access management, initially with
the SDSS group at EDINA based at the University of Edinburgh. In that role, he
was involved in the establishment of the developmental SDSS Federation and its
production successor, the UK Access Management Federation for Education and
Research. He believes that the most successful middleware is both ubiquitous
and invisible, and looks forward to federated identity attaining this ideal.
