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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.
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 current pilots.
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.
A subgroup comprised of representatives from MCNC and InCommon have developed Draft Federation Business Partner Models for InCommon and Regionals. See http://tinyurl.com/ky2r5wl
Eight Quilt InCommon Federation pilots are currently under way, and are being led by the organizations below. It is anticipated that additional pilots will begin during 2014.
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
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:
All three Working Groups met on a regular basis after the 2013 workshop, to help launch the pilots. As of 2014, the Pilot Definition Working Group is continuing to meet; the other two working groups have completed their work.
Representatives of the pilots share their progress on biweekly conference calls. Minutes of these "All Pilot" conference calls are available here.
(includes a link to the pilot Readiness Assessment)
(Documents and diagrams describing federation models and possible tools for Regionals and State Systems to use for interfederating with InCommon)
(This subgroup completed its work in of 2013)
#presentations
Presentation at 2014 Internet2 Global Summit (April 8, 2014)
Presentation at COSN Conference, March 2014 (need link to slides)
Presentations at 2014 Quilt InCommon Workshop (see under heading "Presentation Slides")