This is the home of the Quilt InCommon Federation space. If you would like editing access, please contact i2mi-info AT internet2 DOT edu>.
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.
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.
A subgroup comprised of representatives from MCNC and InCommon has been working on Federation Partnership Business Models. See this page.
View the Net+ Services Spreadsheet for Net+ partners
If prompted for a password, use pilotdef (all lowercase)
This document is intended to be a resource for NET+ Partners, to show which services they can offer to their non-I2 members.
Questions? Feel free to contact Mike Zawacki at *mzawacki \[at\] internet2.edu* |
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
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.
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.
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:
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")