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The role of the federation is to:- Provide
- Provide a policy base for understanding how members run their systems
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- Agree on language and terms
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- Verify each organization
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- Provide digital certificates for trust in communication
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- Trusted "notary" for all universities and partners
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- Provide registry ("metadata") that each participant downloads - a scalable way to relay trusted information
The informationThe InCommon Federation now has 80 participants, including 21 that have joined since October 2007, a 26 percent increase. In addition, there is considerable interest from consortiums.
InCommon is proceeding toward adding a high level of security and trust, called InCommon Silver. A number of federal entities either now require this higher level or will soon. Silver should launch sometime this summer.
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John Krienke announced the Federation Soup meeting taking place June 2-4 in Seattle. The meeting is intended for those interested in setting up national/state/regional federations and how those might interact with one-another and with InCommon. Information about Federation Soup is available at http://middleware.internet2.edu/fedsoup/
InCommon supports the InCommon-Participants email list, discussing collaboration and implementation issues. To join the list (InCommon participants only), send a message to sympa@incommonfederation.org with the following in the body of the message: sub incommon-participants FirstName LastName.