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AAC Membership
Several nominations for AAC membership were received during the recent the call for nominations period of Sept. 26 – Oct 31, 2013.
This is to fill There are open slots on the AAC for a an SP representative, an IdP representative, and an auditor and potentially a member at large.
The open slots are due to current members' terms expiring. The plan is to to ask each candidate to submit two paragraphs summarizing their interest, background, ability to make the necessary time commitment and their institution's support of the required time commitment. The AAC hopes to have a recommendation to InCommon Steering in December regarding new AAC members.
Updated AD Assurance Cookbook
https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/InCAssurance/AD+Silver+Cookbook
AAC has also been providing guidance on interpretation of the Assurance spec provided guidance to the group working on updating the AD Assurance Cookbook . Several members of the AAC had a good call with the AD Assurance group recentlyon interpretation of the Assurance spec. The AD Assurance group has done an excellent job in updating the Cookbook. The whole community will benefit.
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Multi-Factor Authentication
On the TAC webinar of October 10, 2013, a poll was conducted about current status relative to MFA. Mary is interested in who in this group is implementing MFA. Looking at how that fits in with the Assurance profiles
Arnie: Georgetown is looking at a new IDM system and whether and how to incorporate MFA is a big an important part of the discussion. It was agreed that the InCommon Assurance profiles can be a helpful tool in developing requirements and processes for a new IDM system.
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