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Introduction

Limited resources, skill sets, or federation experience often prevent smaller institutions from joining an Identity Federation.  This is especially true for K-12 school districts and smaller higher education institutions such as community or technical colleges.  R&E Network providers or "Regionals" (members of The Quilt) and InCommon are working to bridge this gap by exploring how to extend federation services to these communities.

2014 Quilt InCommon Federation Workshop

Read about the 2014 Quilt InCommon Federation Workshop, Feb 6-7, 2014

Visit the 2014 Workshop Resources page for key documents and slides from the workshop.

2013 Quilt InCommon Federation Workshop

A 2013 Quilt / InCommon Federation Workshop was held at the Winter Quilt Meeting in February 2013 to develop a framework for a distributed federation model.  This would leverage the Regionals to extend the InCommon Federation to these smaller educational institutions, as well as into other sectors. The framework would describe methods of providing these communities (starting with educational institutions) with Identity and Access Management and Federation Services, as well as federation consulting and other forms of support.  A set of pilot proposals involving K-12 and/or Community Colleges were solicited from the Regionals to test and validate these models/methods and to create Case Studies of the selected pilots which could be used to inform additional (possibly larger) pilots or projects.

Pilot Work

At the conclusion of the workshop, it was agreed it would make sense to ask the participants to continue the dialog by joining three working groups focused on the pilots:

  • InCommon-Quilt Pilot Definition Working Group - This group would define the requirements for the pilots and develop a call for participants (CFP) and pilot timelines
  • InCommon-Quilt Technical Working Group - This group would further develop the federation models discussed during the workshop outlining the pros and cons for regionals to consider and coordinate with the InCommon TAC (Technical Advisory Committee) Interfederation group
  • InCommon-Quilt Admin/Policy Working Group - This group would document the distributed administration tasks and roles outlined during the workshop and identity the key policy issues and business models that would need to be addressed in the pilots as well as for ongoing federation.

All three Working Groups met on a regular basis after the 2013 workshop completed, to help launch the pilots.  As of early 2014, the Pilot-Definition Working Group was continuing to meet; the other two working groups had completed their work. 

Initial Pilots

Eight pilot activities are currently under way, and are being led by the organizations below. It is anticipated that there will be subsequent pilot phases, still in the early planning stage.

Read the October 2013 Press Release about the pilots. More details will be forthcoming as they progress.

Quilt/InCommon K12/Community College Grant

To encourage experimentation and adoption of federated identity and access management among K12 and community colleges, InCommon is offering a grant to the pilot projects currently underway. For details, click to read more about the Quilt/InCommon K12/Community College Grant

InCommon/Quilt Federation Pilot Development Project 

(includes a link to the pilot Readiness Assessment)

InCommon/Quilt Technical Working Group

(Documents and diagrams describing federation models and possible tools for Regionals and State Systems to use for interfederating with InCommon)

InCommon Quilt Administrative & Policy Working Group

(under development)

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