This community collaboration group is exploring the building of federations within and across state boundaries. Invited participants include StateNets and Higher Education Systems staff. This effort is supported by Internet2, EDUCAUSE and the InCommon Federation.
See this page for instructions on how to edit this site.
The activity will take the form of a monthly call/communication session with a possibly move to biweekly if interest grows. Topics include:
• Exploring issues relating to federations
• Sharing experiences and identifying solutions
• Build on strategies used by state university systems
• Culling emerging practices
For more information on this activity, see Background.
Minutes
EDUCAUSE IAM and National Strategy for Secure Online Transactions: 19 May 2010
OCLC and Outsourced Identity Provider Services: 21 April 2010
University of Wisconsin Case Study: 17 March 2010
K12 and Federation Issues: 20 January 2010
Update on InCommon from Jack Suess: 16 December 2009
Cal State Federation Case Study: 19 August 2009
SUNY Federation Case Study: 15 July 2009
State of North Carolina Case Study: 15 April 2009
K12 in the UK: Becta Case Study: 18 March 2009
The InCommon Federation: 18 February 2009
UTexas and UCalifornia System Federations Case Studies: 21 January 2009
Welcome to the US Feds Collaboration Group: 17 December 2008
Case Study Links
UC Trust - The University of California Federation and their site.
Related Links
Fall 2010 Theme: Identity and Cloud Services
A growing number of state research and education network providers are exploring adding identity and access infrastructure to their suite of services to complement their physical networks. Their goal is to enable their members to have seamless access to community-based and commercial cloud computing and SaaS resources.
Join us this fall for a series of calls exploring what several state network R&E providers are doing in this realm, why they are doing it and what lessons they can share with you.
Getting Involved
• Subscribe to the companion list, us-federations@incommonfederation.org, by sending a message to sympa@incommonfederation.org with the following in the body of the message:sub us-federations FirstName LastName.
• Post your questions and issues to this wiki by adding a comment to the Questions and Issues page.
• Join the next call scheduled for every third Wednesday of the month at 4:00 pm ET.
Bridge Number: 877-944-2300
Passcode: 99205#
Next Call: September 15
Topic: TBD
Speaker: TBD