News & Blog Posts
Deep Dive Sessions Form the Trust and Identity Core at TechEx
Four longer track sessions at TechEx will provide a deep dive on key Identity and Access Management Topics, including TIER Adoption, IdPs and researchers, and the legal acronym soup.
Shibboleth Service Provider v3 Introduces Useful New Features, Easy Upgrade Path
Nick Roy explains how the new version of Shibboleth SP brings changes to the software with a host of new features to help evolve the use of federation.
Baseline Expectations: Play Along at Home
See which organizations meet the metadata portion of Baseline Expectations - and which do not. An update on the community’s significant progress in meeting the baseline.
Internet2 Deploys First Phase of Collaboration Platform
A new wiki instance, with the TIER containers of Grouper and COmanage at the core, forms the core of Internet2’s new Collaboration Platform.
Becoming Collaboration-Ready
An international group looked at federations and their communities and documented a few simple ways that organizations can streamline their identity management service to better enable collaborative scholarly activities. Tom Barton provides a summary and explanation.
InCommon Certificate Service Plans for 2018
Late last month, InCommon and our certificate partner Comodo did a webinar on the InCommon Certificate Service focusing on results of the latest community survey, the 2018 work plan, and an overview of Comodo’s new support services. Here are some links:
- Archived webinar (YouTube)
- Blog post on survey results
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From @InCommonUS
Identity Matching IAM Online Recording & Slides Now Available
Recording and slides are now available from August IAM Online on "Identity Matching, How to Know Who's Who." Thanks to speakers, Benn Oshrin, Spherical Cow Group, Summer Scanlan @UCBerkeley and thanks to moderator Keith Wessel @Illinois_Alma
From @Internet2
Extension Announcement! 2019 Global Summit call for proposals open until September 7
The call for proposals deadline for the 2019 Internet2 Global Summit has been extended until September 7, 2018.
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