Below are the sessions at the upcoming Internet2 Spring Member Meeting that are related to Identity Trust Federations.
Monday, April 27
Shibboleth Working Group Meeting
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM
Location: Salon A
This session will present updates and discussion on the Shibboleth project. Topics will include: 1) planned functionality for the next release (v2.2), 2) a demo by SWITCH showing Shib-enabled use of native desktop WebDAV clients, 3) a demo by SWITCH of the uApprove IdP extension allowing user control of attribute release (combined with a new IdP plugin to simplify site management of uApprove), 4) a presentation by USC on their work with a clustered IdP using Terracotta, and maybe 5) some discussion of the relationship between SAML 2 and PAM/GINA plugins.
InCommon Forum
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Location: Salon A
This spring's forum will focus on community feedback regarding the future scope of InCommon. The ad hoc InCommon Future group, composed of community members from several Internet2 councils, the InCommon Steering Committee, and others, is charged with developing a three-year plan that recommends InCommon's scope and activities: who InCommon serves, with what set of services, and how it will implement this next phase, including a governance and financial model. Community input is a critical piece of this process. The forum will focus on a brief presentation, followed by round-table feedback discussion groups. Internet2 members and InCommon participants are welcome to join and provide feedback. More information is available here:https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/x/y4E0
National Identity Federations Around the World
5:00 PM - 6:15 PMLocation: Rosslyn
Licia Florio, TERENA
Nicole Harris, JISC
Ken Klingenstein, Internet2/University of Colorado
Michael Stanton, RNP
Tuesday, April 28
InCommon 101
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Location: Salons E/F/G
Have you heard about federations and the benefits of this method for using your identity management system to authenticate constituents to use third-party resources? This lunch BoF will focus on introductory issues. Bring your questions and we'll discuss federating software, what federations do, the activities of the federation community, how to join InCommon and why, and any other topics that BoF participants find relevant.
Federated Cal-Aborations, Sharepoint and Bedework Discussed
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Location: Salon A
Michael Grady, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Gary Schwartz, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Two Federated environments will be presented. First, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), which consists of the Big 10 institutions plus the University of Chicago, have had a SharePoint-based collaboration space to support its numerous standing committees and groups, collaboration efforts, etc. The process and technology behind the CIC use of federated Sharepoint will be presented by Michael Grady. Second, Bedework, an open source enterprise calendaring system in use at many universities in North America and Europe, has been leading the way in the calendaring space for Higher Education and beyond. Bedework has the calendaring distinction of operating in a federated world. Gary Schwartz will present on the current status of Bedework along with current challenges and activity between federation and calendaring.12:00 PM - 1:15 PM InCommon 101
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM Federated Cal-Aborations, Sharepoint and Bedework Discussed
From Statewide Cyberinfrastructure to a Virtual Organization: Current Progress and Next Steps for New Jersey
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Location: Salon C
Grace Agnew, Rutgers University
This proposal will update Internet2 on the statewide Shibboleth implementation and digital video collection efforts of the grant-funded NJVid statewide digital video portal project and also talk about next steps to create seamless information access and collaborative workflows, for a statewide "virtual organization" for statewide information delivery. Next steps include leveraging the statewide Fedora repository and tools implemented via NJVid and developing statewide collaborative workflows for the selection, organization and delivery of digital information through the Mellon-funded OLE (Online Library Environment) project, an open source library workflow platform that uses service oriented architecture to integrate into the higher education enterprise architecture.
Building on Success: from Identity Federation to Interfederation
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Salon A
Josh Howlett, JANET
Ken Klingenstein, Internet2/University of Colorado
Thomas Lenggenhager, SWITCH
Ian Young, University of Edinburgh
Two successful European Identity federations from Switzerland and the UK report what made them succeed and what to consider when planning a new federation. You'll hear about relevant technical and non-technical issues. What it needs to get interfederation activities moving forward is in the focus of the second part of the session.
Wednesday, April 29
Building Identity Trust Federations Within and Across State Boundaries
7:30 AM - 8:45 AM
Location: Salon E
Richard Greenfield, University of Alaska
George Laskaris, NJEDge.Net
State research and education communities increasingly rely upon a growing variety of online interactions that require the support of multiple authentication systems with multiple user-IDs and passwords. This cumbersome and confusing state-of-affairs increases the risk of fraud, privacy compromise and identity theft. Using federated identity, the service provider's account management burden is significantly reduced and the security and privacy is increased for the participating campus or state entity. Participants from the StateNets and US Higher Education Systems communities are invited to join this birds-of-a-feather to discuss topics in building identity trust federations.
Building Strong K20 Initiatives: NCTrust K-20 Federation Pilot and MAGPI's Collaboration with Kentucky
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Location: Salon C
Susan Lancaster, KyRON (Kentucky Regional Optical Network)
Greg Palmer, MAGPI GigaPoP, University of Pennsylvania
Miko Pattie, Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education
Tim Poe, MCNC
Mark Scheible, North Carolina State University
Heather Weisse Walsh, MAGPI GigaPoP, University of Pennsylvania
The NCTrust Federation is a pilot project for North Carolina created to explore collaboration and resource sharing for the K-20 organizations throughout the state. It is driven by the need to prevent duplication of state services as a cost saving measure, as well as to provide services broadly throughout the state regardless of the budgets or technical expertise of some of the smaller educational institutions. By initially using InCommon as the trust infrastructure (modeled after the University of California's UCTrust), we were able to bypass that technical hurdle for the pilot. We then selected a few viable participants from the North Carolina K-20 community (4-year public and private universities, 2-year community colleges and K-12 school districts), and are working to give them authenticated, authorized access to a few North Carolina online applications through federated identity management. The discussion will outline the lessons learned thus far with this project with a look toward future objectives.
Working to build a strong K20 Initiative, MAGPI and the Commonwealth of Kentucky have partnered to advance the use of networking technologies within Kentucky educational communities. Now half-way through their 18-month collaboration, members from both organizations are excited to share their partnership model, intended outcomes and current progress. Hear how MAGPI has worked with Kentucky educational agencies to provide mentoring, training, resources, communication tools, programming and support as they build a more robust teaching and learning community that takes advantage of advanced networking applications.
Future of InCommon and US Federations
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Salon H
Ken Klingenstein, Internet2/University of Colorado
Jack Suess, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Internet2 councils, along with the governing InCommon Steering Committee, are meeting through the winter and spring to develop a recommendation for the future service and business plan of the InCommon federation. Leaders from both Internet2 Councils and InCommon governance will be on hand to present the set of draft recommendations and to solicit feedback.