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This is the home of the InCommon/Quilt Federation space. If you would like Welcome to the Quilt InCommon Federation pilots wiki. For editing access, please contact Steve Olshansky <steveo contact  i2mi-info AT internet2 DOT edu>.

This wiki space is the companion to the Quilt / InCommon Federation Workshop (held in California, February 2013).

Introduction

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The Quilt InCommon Pilot calls were completed in Fall 2015. Here are key resources:

White Paper summarizing the pilots

Blog about the pilots, December 2015

Press Release, February 2016

Article in Campus Technology, February 2016

Recording of IAM Online Webinar on the Pilots from March 9, 2016

 

Summary Documents as of Fall 2015

Quilt InCommon Initiative to Extend Federation to K12 and Community Colleges

Participating in an Identity Federation has significant benefits for educational institutions, providing a common framework for trusted shared management of access to on-line resources.  However, limited Limited resources, skill sets, or federation experience often prevent smaller institutions from joining an Identity Federation.  This participating in federation. This is especially true for K-12 school districts and smaller higher education institutions such as community or technical colleges.  R&E   Research and Education Network providers or "Regionals" (members of The Quilt) and InCommon are trying working to bridge this gap by exploring how to extend federation services to these communities.

Quilt InCommon Federation Pilots

Ten Quilt InCommon Federation pilots were led by the organizations below.

 

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Read the October 2013 Press Release about the pilots.

Proposed Federation Partnership Business Models

A subgroup comprised of representatives from MCNC and InCommon and other interested parties has been working on Federation Partnership Business Models.

See this page for a draft of proposed models and draft term sheets.

Minutes of the Pilots Calls

The pilots held a biweekly open call to share information, discuss progress and challenges.  These calls concluded in fall 2015.

Minutes of Pilot Calls

Workshops

2014 Quilt InCommon Federation Workshop

For the 2014 Quilt InCommon Federation Workshop, Feb 6-7, 2014, see key documents, notes and action items from the workshop, including updates from the pilots.

2013 Quilt InCommon Federation Workshop

A 2013 Quilt / InCommon Federation Workshop was held at the Winter Quilt Meeting in February 2013 to develop a framework for a distributed federation model.  This would leverage the Regionals to extend the InCommon Federation to these smaller educational institutions, as well as into other sectors. The framework would describe methods of providing these communities (starting with educational institutions) with Identity and Access Management and Federation Services, as well as federation consulting and other forms of support.  A set of pilot proposals involving K-12 and/or Community Colleges would be were solicited from the Regionals to test and validate these models/methods and to create Case Studies of the selected pilots which could be used to inform additional (possibly larger) pilots or projects.

At the conclusion of the workshop, it was agreed it would make sense to ask the participants to continue the dialog by joining three working groups focused on the pilots:

  • InCommon-Quilt Pilot Definition Working Group - This group would define the requirements for the pilots and develop a call for participants (CFP) and pilot timelines
  • InCommon-Quilt Technical Working Group - This group would further develop the federation models discussed during the workshop outlining the pros and cons for regionals to consider and coordinate with the InCommon TAC (Technical Advisory Committee) Interfederation group
  • InCommon-Quilt Admin/Policy Working Group - This group would document the distributed administration tasks and roles outlined during the workshop and identity the key policy issues and business models that would need to be addressed in the pilots as well as for ongoing federation.

These Working Groups have been meeting since the workshop completed, and have developed documentation and processes which are available below.

InCommon/Quilt Federation Pilot Development Project 

(under development)

InCommon/Quilt Technical Working Group

(Documents and diagrams describing federation models and possible tools for Regionals and State Systems to use for interfederating with InCommon)

InCommon Quilt Administrative & Policy Working Group

(under development)

Reference Documents:

See 2013 Workshop Summary and Next Steps (pdf)

Pilot Planning and Coordinating Working Groups

see this page for info on the coordinating working groups

Presentations About the Pilots

Presentation at Pilots BOF at 2015 Technology Exchange in Cleveland (Oct. 5, 2015) (Mark Scheible) (PDF)

Presentation at "Be a Hero: Enbable and Maximize the Value of Identity Federation" session at 2015 Global Summit (Mark Scheible) see Slides 6-7

Presentation at the Pilots BOF 2014 Technology Exchange in Indianapolis (Oct. 30, 2014) (Mark Scheible) (Google Doc)

Presentation at 2014 Internet2 Global Summit (April 8, 2014) (Bernie Acs, Jim Peterson, Jason Radford, Scott Isaacson. Mike Danahy)

Presentation at CoSN Annual Conference, March 2014  (Jim Siegl, Mike Danahy, Bernie Acs)

Presentations at 2014 Quilt InCommon Workshop (see under heading "Presentation Slides")

Webinars

  • Webinar on Student Data Privacy from Bob Moore and Jim Siegl covering issues such a parents' rights, FERPA, COPPA, contracting considerations, and more on Thursday, June 19, 2014. The Adobe Connect recording is linked here.

Documents and Other Resources