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Quilt InCommon Initiative to Extend Federation to K12 and Community Colleges

Participating in an Identity Federation has significant benefits for educational institutions, providing a common framework for trusted shared management of access to on-line resources.  However, limited resources, skill sets, or experience often prevent smaller institutions from participating in 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.

Current Quilt InCommon Federation Pilots

Nine Quilt InCommon Federation pilots are currently under way, and are being led by the organizations below. It is anticipated that additional pilots will begin in the fall of 2014.

Read the October 2013 Press Release about the pilots.

Proposed Federation Partnership Business Models

A subgroup comprised of representatives from MCNC and InCommon has been working on Federation Partnership Business Models. See this page.

Net+ Services Spreadsheet for Net+ Partners

View the Net+ Services Spreadsheet for Partners

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Questions? Feel free to contact Mike Zawacki at mzawacki [at]  internet2.edu

Minutes of the Pilots Calls

Minutes

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

Workshops

2014 Quilt InCommon Federation Workshop

Official website for the 2014 Quilt InCommon Federation Workshop, Feb 6-7, 2014. See key documents, notes and action items from the workshop, including updates from the pilots.

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 Planning and Coordinating Working Groups

At the conclusion of the 2013 Quilt InCommon Federation Workshop, participants were asked to continue the dialog by joining three working groups focused on the pilots:

  • InCommon-Quilt Technical Working Group - This group helped 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. This group has completed its work.
  • InCommon-Quilt Admin/Policy Working Group - This group  documented 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.  This group has completed its work.

Presentations About the Pilots

Presentation at 2014 Internet2 Global Summit (April 8, 2014) (Bernie Acs, Jim Peterson, Jason Radford, Scott Isaacson. Mike Danahy)

Presentation at CoSN Annual Conference, March 2014  (Jim Siegl, Mike Danahy, Bernie Acs)

Presentations at 2014 Quilt InCommon Workshop (see under heading "Presentation Slides")

Reference Documents and Resources

  • Presentation on Student Data Privacy from Bob Moore and Jim Siegl covering issues such a parents' rights, FERPA, COPPA, contracting considerations, and more on Thursday, June 19, 2014. The Adobe Connect recording is linked here.
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