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John Krienke and Mark Johnson (MCNC) provided information about their discussions about extending the value of federation to smaller institutions. A few summary slides are on the Steering wiki: https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/download/attachments/48497980/Regionals_InCommon_2014-08-04.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1407114332039
Under the current InCommon model, the overall cost to federate all of North Carolina’s 115 K-12 districts is too high. InCommon and MCNC are breaking down all of InCommon’s business and technical features, and intend to rearrange those to fit MCNC and K-12. This would involve MCNC becoming the steward for representing and registering these third-parties with InCommon, and serving as the registration authority and providing metadata verification and support.
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John Krienke and Mark Johnson will continue to develop this and come back to Steering.
Symplicity/Maxient
There was continued discussion about a court case involving two InCommon sponsored partners (but not involving the federation or their use of InCommon)
Programs Subcommittee
John O’Keefe reported that the subcommittee and John Krienke have created a “programs and services index” draft, which will be useful in mapping the priorities into the operations.
The timeline calls for having a draft 2015 process by early September.
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