* Astrid Fingerhut, University of Chicago

Lightning Talk : Trusted Agent Program (TAG)

still being edited as of July 9 09

TAG was designed to address 3 problems

Faculty coming in the summer want to use CHALK and email

Don't have true HR, have payroll system. So people don't appear for two weeks or a month

So getting an account right away is a problem. People need access day 1 not day 20

Trusted agent is distributed authorization.    There are 70 trusted agents

Dean appoints trusted agent or 2

Trusted agent can assign

Temp accounts is for folks who are not employees of university.
Trusted agent can give temp accounts

Trusted agents can give temp accounts - up to one year
Meeting IDs

Each meeting ID lasts one day long and expires at midnight
Preview accounts?

Temp accounts - problem that different people need different services.

Some resolved ad hoc. Some resolved by given a group a di
639 temp accounts

Since inception been widely used

Problem occurs when the trusted agent leaves a dept but not the university.

Q: do trusted agents have to go through certification?
A: Astrid goes to everyone's office
When it grows, it gets harder to manage
Help once per year updates, try to keep track

Q:RL Bob: we have similar program at University of Washington
For temporary wireless access.

No training needed. We are looking to see if it creates abuse.

Q: Do you also have classic sponsored account?

A: We had that before we had TAG.  Was a piece of paper.
Caused problems w accounts left open and we didn't know what to do with them.