Trust and Identity Newsletter – June 2018

In this issue:

  • Working Group Recommends Steps to Improve Attribute Release
  • Campus Success Program Pays Big Dividends at UMBC
  • Campuses Addressing Provisioning, Grouper Deployment, and Banner Onboarding Working Groups Update
  • Blog Posts Demonstrate Work of the Campus Success Program Schools
  • InCommon Baseline Expectations in Effect: What You Can Expect Now
  • Streamlining Service Provider Onboarding: Criteria, Interactive Guidance, and More!
  • Federation Manager Redesigned for Ease of Use; Support for Baseline Expectations
  • InCommon Certificate Service Survey Summary
  • Events, fun facts and social media

Trust and Identity at Internet2 includes the InCommon Federation, InCommon Certificate Service, the TIER software and campus practices program, eduroam roaming wireless, and other programs. For details, see Trust and Identity.

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News & Blog Posts

Working Group Recommends Steps to Improve Attribute Release

Attributes Working Group recommendations imageBrad Christ unveils a list of draft recommendations on how to increase participation in the Research and Scholarship Entity Category, assembled by the Attributes for Collaboration and Federation Working Group through an extensive data gathering process. The group will reconvene to review feedback/incorporate changes before releasing the final report and recommendations at this fall's Internet2 Technology Exchange.


Campus Success Program Pays Big Dividends at UMBC

Campus collaboration model imageJack Suess shares an important perspective on why UMBC jumped at the opportunity to participate as both an investor and participant in the Campus Success Program (CSP), and how UMBC is using the program to fundamentally rethink how they do identity management.


Campuses Addressing Provisioning, Grouper Deployment, and Banner Onboarding Working Groups Update

Campus Success Program working groups updatesCheck this post to find a summary of updates from the several working groups formed by the 10 collaborating schools in the Campus Success Program (CSP). The schools are working together to adopt one or more components of the TIER (Trust and Identity in Education and Research) identity management platform (InCommon, Shibboleth, COmanage, Grouper, midPoint, and others).


Blog Posts Demonstrate Work of the Campus Success Program Schools

new blog posts imageThe latest batch of blog posts from Campus Success Program schools include experiences with deploying the containerized version of Grouper and Shibboleth.


InCommon Baseline Expectations in Effect: What You Can Expect Now

tennis ball hitting baseline cornerWondering what you can expect now that the InCommon Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation are officially in effect? Here's a summary of the communications, guidance and assistance available to your organization as you implement the new Baseline Expectations.


Streamlining Service Provider Onboarding: Criteria, Interactive Guidance, and More!

simplify the process imageBecoming an InCommon federation Service Provider can be an intimidating process depending on your level of experience, with up to a dozen or more steps to follow before you can become a full InCommon federation operational participant. Read about the simplification and centralization of resources developed by the Streamlining Service Provider Onboarding Working Group.


Federation Manager Redesigned for Ease of Use; Support for Baseline Expectations

interface redesign graphicNick Roy provides a recent snapshot of the continuing work to improve the InCommon Federation Manager, including recent changes to support the Baseline Expectations program. You'll find information on every stage of the effort, past, present and future.


InCommon Certificate Service Survey Summary

survey feedback graphicHere are key takeaways as well as a full results summary of the InCommon Certificate Service annual survey. This critical feedback will be used to drive the service in the directions that matter most to subscribers as they're rolled into the forthcoming 2018-19 work plan.


Featured InCommon Partners

99Agree logo99Agree is a software company devoted to helping people learn to live, share, and get along with the people they live with. We are not matching software - match or assign however you like. Our platform uses data from your campus housing data management software. Some of our key features include: develop roommate agreements (set expectations for living together), hotspot ranking - which roommates are at greatest risk for conflict, track chores, request help from staff, and give feedback about their roommate experience at regular intervals (satisfaction data). Click logo for more.

Seattle Tech logoSeattle Tech provides conference and event software solutions exclusively to higher education institutions. We offer fully SAAS solutions for managing the entire event lifecycle including online event registration and on-campus guest housing. Our expert consulting team supports more than 130 universities in the US and Canada. Seattle Tech product offerings include: Iris Registration, Iris Front Desk, Iris Housekeeping, Iris Public Safety, and Iris Coordinator. We are pleased to join the InCommon foundation and to provide our clients the benefits of integrated SSO. Click logo for additional information.


Key Internet2 identity initiatives are supported in part by National Science Foundation grants. For more information, see specific software sites.

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