On March 16, 2012, InCommon registered its 1,000th entity in Federation metadata. Actually, there were four new service providers (SPs) registered on that day, so we’re declaring this a tie and each SP will share the distinction:
- NEXT Medicine Study (owned by University of Washington)
- Microsoft IT Federation Service (owned by Microsoft)
- Environmental Health and Safety development server (owned by Carnegie Mellon University)
- RightAnswers Unified Knowledge Platform (owned by RightAnswers, Inc)
We’ll be sending InCommon t-shirts to the site admins for each of these sites. Congratulations!
As of today (March 22, 2012), InCommon has 381 participants, 292 of which participate in the Federation. These organizations have deployed 231 identity providers (IdPs) and 771 service providers (SPs), for a total of 1,002 entities. You can find current lists of entities in metadata at https://incommon.org/federation/all-entities.html and you can see the growth over the past six-and-a-half years on the attached graph.
Since the beginning of 2011 to date, the Federation has seen a 38% increase in the number of IdPs and a whopping 74% increase in the number SPs. Almost 6 million individuals can now take advantage of the secure and privacy-preserving trust fabric offered by the InCommon Federation. Congrats to the community for making scalable identity and access management happen in a very big way.
