Recommendation Potential Recommendations - Please add your initials to three | Initials |
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Activities for the InCommon administration or TIER |
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Fully-functional outsourced Shibboleth blessed by InCommon with InCommon participating in the management of the solution. (High value) |
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Certification of IdP support vendors blessed by InCommon. (High value) |
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Appliances for insourced operation such as CANARIE’s IdP installer with configurations pre-built for InCommon. |
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Ways to facilitate InCommon members getting consultant help without a lot of administrative overhead. This might be combined with a mentor program. |
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Outreach to those institutions that are not engaged in federation and would not know that alternatives for an IdP exist. |
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| Community solutions with InCommon coordination |
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Outsourcing an IdP to other InCommon members hosting the IdP. |
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An mentor program for InCommon Members to help campuses get started. (High value, low cost) |
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Second phase of the Alternative IdPs Working Group or another chartered group. |
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Develop criteria for assessing of IdP service vendors. (High value, low cost) |
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Identify and assess vendors. This would have to done repeatedly in order to keep current and provide value. (High value, potential high cost) |
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A cookbook on deploying the IdP strategies, including technical architecture, vendor selection, user support, operation, etc. (High value, low cost) |
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| Deeper investigation into architectural patterns for IdP deployment. |
| SKA |