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1. Round robin -- news/status from the institutions
MSU -- upheaval turnove in upper management continues and will have a domino effect-- VP for Finance, Provost, and CIO all left recently. I will meet with our interim CIO next week to try to gauge support for our proposal to re-launch MSU's Silver initiative. There is a good chance of this project getting tabled until the CIO position is filled, which will likely be six months to a year from now. I'll have an update on this next month. I'm leading a project to upgrade our MIT Kerberos central authentication service; when complete it will support account lockout which is needed to achieve Silver's authentication strength requirement. AD implementation is in the works -- there is a plan to synchronize passwords between AD and MIT Kerberos, which, if we do it, will bring our AD into scope for InCommon Silver.
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