From: Michael A Grady <mgrady@unicon.net>
Reply-to: Michael A Grady <mgrady@unicon.net>
To: MFA Cohortium <mfa-cohort@lists.cohortium.internet2.edu>
Subject: [mfa-cohort] Full Cohortium meeting this week, 2/5/2014, on Wednesday at 2pm EST
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:39:03 -0600
 
A reminder we have a full Cohortium meeting tomorrow.
 
We've had a good response to our call for volunteers from our member institutions to talk to the Cohortium about their MFA deployments, what they use it for, how it's worked out, and what they'd do differently (or are already planning to change or add on) today. But we'd still love to have more, so do consider this if you haven't already volunteered.
 
I'd hoped one of those institutions could talk at our meeting tomorrow, but the timing didn't work out. So David and I are still working on the agenda, and we'll send out another note pointing to that later. But at least one part of the meeting will be talking about the "explosion of interest" in talking about MFA management/enrollment//reset requirements for institutions to successfully manage MFA at scale. Nick Roy at Penn State had started the discussion a few weeks back with questions around Duo deployment and what other campuses were doing, and then a new thread got started by Bruce Vincent of Stanford and others. And we've subsequently talked about this in several of the Cohortium subgroup meetings.
 
If you are on the InCommon Participants list, you'd have seen that quite a few institutions -- not currently members of the Cohortium -- raised their hands when I asked if there was interest in us arranging a discussion on this topic. We want to be sure people understand that we don't have any direct influence on a particular vendor (e.g. Duo, although Duo has been quite open and sharing with us around their plans and thoughts on these issues), but want to do this in the vein of "Here are the requirements we need" that we can feed to vendors, of collecting examples of what various institutions are building/adding on to manage MFA, and explore if there is an opportunity here to coordinate individual efforts into an effort with broader backing and broader potential use.
 
David and I are thinking that we'd invite everyone interested in talking about this to the *next* Cohortium meeting planned for Wednesday, Feb. 19, and have that be a focus of that meeting. And that we could use part of tomorrow's call to discuss exactly how we'd like to structure that call, what expectations we want to set when we invite a broader set of institutions to join that call, and what we'd like to see come out of that meeting.

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