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K20 Advisory Committee Meeting - Conference Call

December 7, 2010

TIME:  (60 min)

  • 8:00 am Hawaiian
  • 11:00 am Pacific
  • 12:00 pm Mountain
  • 1:00 pm Central
  • 2:00 pm Eastern

ATTENDING

David Underwood, Arkansas Tech University
John Gregory, University of Maine
Carol Willis, Texas Education Telecommunications Network (TETN)
Randy Stout, Kansas Board of Regents
Matt Conforth, Passaic Valley Regional High School
John Gillespie, MOREnet
James Werle, Internet2

Meeting Notes

BTOP project updates (All)

Arkansas - Received a BTOP grant to connect as many 2 year institutions as possible.
Most are in rural areas. Currently looking for dark fiber, figuring out
trenching, etc. All public 4 years are already connected.

Maine - John Gregory - Half way through a 2 year BTOP funded fiber ring project called "three ring binder". Providing broadband. The project has strengthened partnerships with incumbent carriers.

Missouri - John Gillespie - MO received the largest number of BTOP grants in the country because of the large under served populations. MOREnet didn't receive grants directly though parterning with others on middle mile projects.

SEGP project updates (All)

TX - Carol is currently interviewing to fill the open "advanced applications and
statewide distrance learning specialist" position.

KS - Gearing up to offer 30-40 grants to KanEd members for HD VC gear. February they will announce grant awards. Grants are designed to increase capacity at member institutions currently using VC on the network and reach new end points sites new to VC.

Federated ID management working group (Randy)

The Internet2 K20 Initiative has joined with the Consortium of School Networks (COSN), StateNets, Educause, and the Internet2 Commons to help raise awareness and stimulate the adoption of federated identity management beyond higher education and into K12 schools.

The Joint Task Force is headed by Denise Shorey, a COSN board member and Internet2 K20 representative from Colorado.

The mission of the Task Force is to answer several key questions:

  • Why should school district CTOs care about identity management;
  • What does a CTO need to know about the technology;
  • What are the key technology challenges, and;
  • How does K12 involvement in identity management impact higher
    education, service providers and others?

Several deliverables have been identified and assigned to subcommittees.

101 Federated ID Management Video - To help educate district CTOs, the K20 Initiative invited Clair Goldsmith to present an introduction to federated ID management at the Fall Internet2 Member meeting.

External Communications - Examples of how the Joint Task Force will inform and share their progress with others include utilizing webinars to make the information widely available, a panel presentation at the COSN annual meeting, and a primer on federated ID management to be published by COSN.

Use and Business Cases – Important to providing answers to the key questions include proven and theoretical use cases. North Carolina, with its recent federated ID management pilot in K12, will be included as a proven use case, and examples in higher education that could apply to K12 will provide theoretical cases. On the service provider side, examples will be identified and explored with services providers such as the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC). "If identity management makes it easier from a human endeavor perspective to use our services then I am attracted to using the technology," said Ruth Blankenbaker, Executive Director of CILC, which hosts a popular interactive videoconferencing programming directory.

The task force plans to complete the deliverables by spring 2011.

ACTION ITEM: please send questions or experiences you'd like to share
about federated ID management activities in your state.

The 2011 K20 Initiative Advisory Committee meetings schedule will be distributed soon. 

2010 Advisory Committee Meeting Schedule

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