November 12, 2021
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 ratified by the InCommon Steering…
November 12, 2021
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 work is an InCommon’s Advisory…
November 11, 2021
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. In this blog post, she draws on her experience to offer four tips…
November 8, 2021
midPoint, the newest addition to the InCommon Trusted Access Platform, is a general-purpose identity management and governance system that can synchronize and reconcile among multiple systems of record and sources of identity. It can also provision and de-provision user accounts and groups into services. Register for midPoint Basics Calling all early birds! Register for the…
November 4, 2021
Scott Woods is the CEO of West Arete, a custom software development company for the higher education community, InCommon Catalyst, and sponsor of the 2021 CAMP Week held October 4-8. In this Q&A, Scott shares about his team’s effort to design, develop, and deploy a fully accessible social app to support the virtual CAMP and…
November 3, 2021
The InCommon Community Trust and Assurance Board (CTAB) invites the community to join its next Office Hours. The next Baseline Expectations 2 (BE2) Office Hour will be on Tuesday November 23, 2021 at 1 p.m. ET / Noon CT / 11 a.m. MT/ 10 a.m. PT. CTAB members and subject matter experts will be on hand…
October 7, 2021
The InCommon Community Trust and Assurance Board (CTAB) invites the community to join its next Office Hours. The next Baseline Expectations 2 (BE2) Office Hour will be on Tuesday October 26, 2021 at 1 p.m. ET / Noon CT / 11 a.m. MT/ 10 a.m. PT. CTAB members and subject matter experts will be on hand…
September 28, 2021
Majeed Abu-Qulbain, Senior Enterprise Architect at Illinois State University, is an alumnus of the InCommon Academy’s Collaboration Success Program and Trusted Access Platform training. In this Q&A, Majeed discusses how InCommon Academy is supporting his team’s efforts to standardize and streamline identity and access management (IAM), ultimately to solve challenges and better serve their university…
September 14, 2021
Internet2 and the eduroam community here and abroad are extremely saddened to hear of the sudden loss of Miroslav (Miro) Milinović. Most recently Miro served as the assistant director of SRCE (Sveučilišni računski centar), but his roots in the international eduroam and identity and access (IAM) communities were extensive and his contributions there were substantial. …
September 9, 2021
Does your team have a new staff member who needs a crash course on Shibboleth? Or a resident expert on identity and access management (IAM) who wants to upskill on Grouper, COmanage, or midPoint to lead the next phase of your institution’s IAM transformation? Look no further than the InCommon Academy’s Trusted Access Platform training.…
