During the NET+ service evaluation phase, a group of universities led by a Sponsor institution and Internet2 assess the service for inclusion in the Internet2 NET+ catalog, apply a consistent process, and determine how to make it available at scale to the entire higher education community.
The service evaluation process typically takes three months.
NET+ Service Evaluation Workgroups
During the service evaluation, several workgroups are formed and they typically work in parallel as outlined below:Main
Purpose: This group consists of representatives who have responsibility for the project and who are decision makers.
Timeline: duration of the project (typically 3 months)
Typical time commitment: 30-45 min. weekly calls
Workgroup participants may include:
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For the legal part of the evaluation, typically in the second part of the project, the following will be included in the weekly calls, and/or additional dedicated time may be scheduled:
Topics covered by the main workgroup include:
Deliverables
Functional assessment may be combined with above.
Purpose: This group consists of representatives who have expertise in the service proposed and who will lead the functional assessment
Timeline: duration of the project (typically 3 months)
Typical time commitment: 30-45 min. weekly calls and adequate time to develop functional assessment tests, perform the assessment, document exceptions, etc.
Workgroup participants may include:
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Topics covered by the functional assessment workgroup include:
Deliverables
Identity
Purpose: This group consists of representatives who have expertise in the identity area and who are tasked with doing the assessment of Service Provider’s integration with InCommon.
Timeline: 5-6 weeks
Typical time commitment: 30-45 min. weekly calls and adequate time to work with the service and assess the identity implementation.
Workgroup participants may include:
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Topics covered by the identity workgroup include:
Deliverables
Security
Purpose: This group consists of representatives who have expertise in the security area and who are tasked with doing the security assessment. The tool used for the security assessment is the Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit (HECVAT)
Timeline: 5-6 weeks
Typical time commitment: 30-45 min. weekly calls and adequate time to work with the service and do a security assessment.
Workgroup participants may include:
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Topics covered by the Security workgroup include:
Process and Deliverables
Deliverables
Accessibility
If the main group decides to pursue an accessibility assessment, then we may create a separate workroup to do an accessibility assessment. Alternatively, the service evaluation schools may decide to do their own accessibility assessment and report the results back to the Main group.
Timeline: 5-6 weeks
Typical time commitment: 30-45 min. weekly calls and adequate time to work with the service and do an accessibility assessment.
Workgroup participants may include:
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Deliverables
Network Integration
Internet2 works with the SP to ensure traffic runs on the I2 network. If the service runs in Amazon, it’s entirely possible that no work is required, as AWS is already connected to I2. If the service runs in a data center owned by the SP, some of the work below will apply.