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Jan.
2022
By Amber Rasche, Senior Communications Specialist
Robust engagement in Internet2’s Community Groups is the linchpin for moving our community forward. From chartering working groups, advisory groups, and communities of interest, to developing best practices and guiding new solutions – thought leaders from institutions large and small engage regularly to identify challenges and determine new ways…
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Dec.
2021
By Albert Wu, InCommon Federation Service Manager
InCommon participants established the InCommon Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation in 2018 as a means to increase trust and interoperability among InCommon federation participants and to define what they expect of each other, and of InCommon Operations. The second iteration of Baseline Expectations (Baseline Expectations 2, or BE2) was…
03
Dec.
2021
By Amber Rasche, Senior Communications Specialist
Just six months have passed since the InCommon Catalyst community partner program launched in June 2021. And evidence of the Catalysts’ deep, ongoing commitment to the InCommon community is already stacking up. Catalysts are industry leaders and Internet2 members that actively contribute to identity and access management (IAM) within…
03
Dec.
2021
By Sara Jeanes, eduroam Product Manager
eduroam is expanding and changing to serve K-12. Internet2 is moving all subscribers to a cloud-forward architecture and new configuration management portal. We are providing weekly updates on the transition. You may find more information on our Weekly Progress wiki. Briefly, here is what you need…
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Nov.
2021
By Netta Caligari, InCommon Community Success Manager
Ready for an IAM movie night? InCommon + GÉANT’s 2021 CAMP Week is all wrapped up, but the party’s still going! To allow the broader community access to some of the incredibly insightful content from our virtual conference, we happily announce the release of three stellar presentations, ready to view…
17
Nov.
2021
By Chris Hyzer, University of Pennsylvania and Chair of the Grouper Project
We’re excited to share recent developments in the Grouper project. Grouper is an enterprise group and access management system that simplifies access management by letting you use the same group or role in many places in your organization. Grouper is part of the InCommon Trusted Access Platform, an identity…
12
Nov.
2021
By Netta Caligari, InCommon Community Success Manager
Engagement is the foundation of how we operate at InCommon. We appreciate the variety of ways our community comes together to develop best practices; guide the adoption of new technologies, and identify challenges to help resolve common issues in research and education. One of the main avenues for driving this…
16
Nov.
2021
By David St. Pierre Bantz, University of Alaska / InCommon Community Trust & Assurance Board, and Albert Wu, InCommon Federation Service Manager
InCommon Participants established the InCommon Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation in 2018 as a means to increase trust and interoperability among InCommon federation participants and to define what they expect of each other, and of InCommon Operations. The second iteration of Baseline Expectations (Baseline Expectations 2, or BE2) was…
16
Nov.
2021
By Tom Barton, Internet2 Research Engagement
In the Fall of 2020, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that they were making changes to increase the security of many of their services to better protect the sensitive data shared with researchers. Among those are requirements for federated logins: Release Necessary User Information – Release the user…
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Nov.
2021
By Laura Paglione, Partner at Spherical Cow Group
Laura Paglione is a partner at Spherical Cow Group (SCG), the open-source lead of the COmanage project, and an InCommon Catalyst. Laura leads COmanage workshops through the InCommon Academy’s software training and is also a member of the InCommon Federation Steering Committee.
