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Introduction
Here are key resources: White Paper summarizing the pilots Blog about the pilots, December 2015 Article in Campus Technology, February 2016 Recording of IAM Online Webinar on the Pilots from March 9, 2016
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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 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.
- MCNC (North Carolina)
- Merit (Michigan)
- MOREnet (Missouri)
- NCSA & IlliniCloud, Collaborators and the Technical Partners for the Illinois Shared Learning Environment (ISLE)
- OARnet (Ohio)
- WiscNet (Wisconsin)
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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.
Workshops
2014 Quilt InCommon Federation Workshop
Official website for For the 2014 Quilt InCommon Federation Workshop, Feb 6-7, 2014See , see key documents, notes and action items from the workshop, including updates from the current 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 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.
Proposed Federation Partnership Business Models
A subgroup comprised of representatives from MCNC and InCommon have developed Draft Federation Business Partner Models for InCommon and Regionals. See http://tinyurl.com/ky2r5wl
Current Quilt InCommon Federation Pilots
Eight Quilt InCommon Federation pilots are currently under way, and are being led by the organizations below. It is anticipated that additional pilots will begin during 2014.
- MCNC (North Carolina)
- Merit (Michigan)
- NCSA & IlliniCloud, Collaborators and the Technical Partners for the Illinois Shared Learning Environment (ISLE)
- OARnet (Ohio)
- WiscNet (Wisconsin)
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Minutes of the Pilots Calls
Quilt InCommon K12/Community College Grant
To encourage experimentation and adoption of federated identity and access management among K12 and community colleges, InCommon is offering a grant to the pilot projects currently underway. For details, click to read more about the Quilt/InCommon K12/Community College Grant
Pilot Planning and Coordinating Working Groups
At the conclusion of the 2013 Quilt InCommon Federation Workshop, participants were asked 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.
All three Working Groups met on a regular basis after the 2013 workshop, to help launch the pilots. As of 2014, the Pilot Definition Working Group is continuing to meet; the other two working groups have completed their work.
Representatives of the pilots share their progress on biweekly conference calls. Minutes of these "All Pilot" conference calls are available here.
InCommon/Quilt Federation Pilot Development Project
(includes a link to the pilot Readiness Assessment)
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
Reference Documents and Resources
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
- InCommon Recent Activities, presented by David Walker June 18, 2015 (PDF)
- Working with Vendors for K12 Federation (info from Bernie A'cs March 2015)
- Student Data Privacy Q&A from Jim Siegl, Jan. 2015 (wiki page)
- COPPA Compliance information (Under 13)
- Webinar on IDP Deployment with Tom Scavo from April 24, 2014
- Wiki pages for this webinar:
- New IdPs in Metadata https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/x/CYjYAQ
- IdP Deployment Checklist https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/x/x4HYAg
- Metadata Administration https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/InCFederation/Metadata+Administration
- Wiki pages for this webinar:
- Two introductory webinars conducted in Jan. 2013 to set the stage for the Feb. 2013 Quilt InCommon Federation workshop.
-Webinar “Introduction to Federations and InCommon” (Jan. 18, 2013)
-Webinar providing a more in-depth overview of some models and strategies (Jan. 25, 2013)
- 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
- InCommon Recent Activities, presented by David Walker June 18, 2015 (PDF)
- Working with Vendors for K12 Federation (info from Bernie A'cs March 2015)
- Student Data Privacy Q&A from Jim Siegl, Jan. 2015 (wiki page)
- COPPA Compliance information (Under 13)
- Value Proposition for InCommon by Mark Scheible (Word doc, October 2014)
- Federation as a Service information from GEANT, October 2014
- Article on Identity Management and InCommon in 2013 Year End Report (page 7) by Scott Isaacson
- eduPerson schema by Keith Hazelton, Keith Hazelton's slides on eduPerson from February 27, 2014 Pilots call (ppt)
- Relationships between K-12 and Higher Education (Slides) - Reasons for FederationUse Cases
- Digital Identity Management for K-20 Education (pdf)
Ann West (Internet2/InCommon), Renee Shuey (Penn State U.) and Shaun Abshere (WiscNet), published in the 2007 CoSN Compendium.
The following document is a member-only publication from CoSN, the professional association of school district technology leaders. It is provided as a courtesy to the community to advance the conversation. Join CoSN at www.cosn.org/membership - K-12 Obstacles to Federation
- Relationships between K-12 and Higher Education (Slides) - Reasons for Federation
- 2013 Workshop Summary and Next Steps (pdf)
- Project Terminology
- National K-12 Federated Identity and Access Management Task Force
- Transforming Data to Information in Service of Learning from State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA)
- K-12 Obstacles to Federation (wiki page)
- Project Terminology (wiki page)
- Use Cases (wiki page)
- Webpage on the Pilots (on the Internet2 website)