A -draft- report is now available from the InCommon Future group for community response. There will be in-person and teleconference sessions and multiple methods for you to provide input to this important juncture for the higher
education community and its InCommon federation activity. Your input is needed in order to best express the support and positioning of an identity infrastructure for scholarship, education, and research in the U.S.
In a compressed timeframe, the InCommon Future group has provided a significant amount of energy, wisdom, and clarity for this effort. They are also keenly bent on keeping channels of communication open to the broad community they represent. The draft report is now available on the InCommon Collaboration wiki.
The document is intentionally open ended for response on priorities, structures, and recommendations, which will emerge into a final report by end of June (see the Charge on the wiki for further detail).
There are several ways for InCommon participants and Internet2 members to express a voice:
1. April 27th 5:00pmET. The InCommon Forum at the Internet2 Spring Member Meeting. We will host a presentation and round table discussion for /both/ in-person and teleconference participants.
2. April 29th 3:00pmET. A track session on InCommon Future and US Federations at the Internet2 Spring Member Meeting will be netcast, with slides provided via web link.
3. At any time, you may send us your thoughts at a unique email address where we will aggregate comments for the InCommon Future group. That email address is: inc-future-comment@incommonfederation.org
4. May 4th 4:00pmET. Members of both the InCommon Future group and the InCommon Steering Committee will host a 1 hour session for Q&A and Comment.
Details on accessing all of these means to comment and participate are available on the InCommon Future wiki.