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Your Feedback Needed for Proposed New Baseline Expectations

March 17, 2020 The InCommon Community Trust and Assurance Board (CTAB) has proposed three additions to Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation. Last year, InCommon participants adopted the original Baseline Expectations to provide a baseline for trust and make collaboration more predictable. InCommon participants are asked to review and comment on the proposed additions (details…

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InCommon Academy Moves Online

March 13, 2020 In light of the current circumstances related to the rapidly evolving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, InCommon cancelled the Shibboleth workshop scheduled for March 17 – 18 at Rice University. The safety and well-being of our community colleagues, members, and staff is our top priority, and we feel that it is impossible to…

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Certificate Service Adds ACME Service

The InCommon Certificate Service now offers ACME (Automated Certificate Management Environment) Service, which was identified as a priority during our last subscriber survey and has now been implemented by our partner, Sectigo. The last survey of subscribers identified ACME as a priority. ACME is a protocol that allows servers and applications to communicate directly and securely to…

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New Community Leaders Join Governance and Advisory Groups

By Jessica ColtrinInCommon Advocacy Program Manager More than 150 individuals from 105 organizations served on InCommon advisory and working groups in 2019. The new year means new members joining InCommon governing and advisory groups, and dedicated members rolling off. This year we welcome several new organizations as well as greater international participation. We want to…

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Grouper Reporting addresses multiple needs; even sends emails!

By Chris Hyzer, University of Pennsylvania Grouper, the access management component of the InCommon Trusted Access Platform, is continuing to evolve to meet the community’s needs. For many years, Grouper has been providing group and access management solutions for a broad and enthusiastic user community. Recently the Grouper development team has enhanced Grouper with a…

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Global Summit

Global Summit topics include IAM reboot, cloud-based identity providers, InCommon roadmap

The Internet2 Global Summit (March 30-April 1 in Indianapolis) features a number of sessions related to InCommon and identity and access management. Some brief highlights are listed below. You can see the full line-up and registration information at the Global Summit website. Extending eduroam to higher ed, K-12, and beyond: A pilot takes off in…

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InCommon Fun Facts – February 2020

New InCommon Participants As of February 11, 2020, InCommon had 1,014 participants. Here are the new participants since the last update in October: Higher Education Sponsored Partners InCommon Certificate Service Subscribers As of February 11, 2020, 472 organizations subscribe to the InCommon Certificate Service. Here are the new subscribers since the last update in August:…

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Organizations Urged to Move to Metadata Query Service

By Nick RoyDirector of Technology & Strategy, InCommon On Thursday, January 30th, the InCommon Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) accepted the final report of the Internet2 Trust and Identity Services Operations project which put Metadata Query (MDQ) into production. With the TAC’s sign-off on that report, the community has officially accepted the state of the MDQ…

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CSP 2020 – For community, by community.

The next round of the InCommon Collaboration Success Program (CSP) kicks off this week at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. In the interest of sharing the experiences with the community we will use the hashtag #incommoncsp and post photos and updates of key moments along the way. CSP is cohort-driven which fosters…

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InCommon Shibboleth Workshop Slated for March 17-18, 2020

Looking to deploy InCommon-ready Shibboleth Service Provider and Identity Provider in a way that’s easy to install and manage? Want first-hand experience with the world of containers and how they can make your life easier? Are you ready to join the ranks of over 680 attendees from 20+ workshops who have given this course a…