April 15, 2020
April 15, 2020 By Nicholas Roy Everyone in the InCommon Participant community has been affected by the global COVID-19 pandemic. One of the best things about this community is how it responds to shared challenges, divides up the problem space, and offers solutions rapidly. A recent example is quickly changing the way we sign and…
April 15, 2020
April 15, 2020 Just three weeks ago, the international science community asked for help. Schools and research organizations could make it easier for researchers and scientists to join global collaborations formed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a matter of an identity provider releasing a few pieces of information to the REFEDS Research…
April 15, 2020
April 15, 2020 Given the uncertainties over the COVID-19 outbreak and for the safety of our community and staff, InCommon will hold BaseCAMP as a virtual meeting. Originally scheduled for June in Milwaukee, BaseCAMP will now take place July 20-24 (roughly four hours each day). Details of the program and registration information will be available…
April 1, 2020
April 1, 2020 As with most organizations, InCommon has adjusted its operations to ensure continuity of critical infrastructure as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. We have accelerated the timing for a planned change in the way we sign metadata. Currently, two people need to physically be in our Ann Arbor office each day to…
March 26, 2020
March 26, 2020 If your institution runs an InCommon Identity Provider, the international science community needs your help in connecting your researchers and scientists to collaborations that are rapidly forming in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. How can you help them? Make it easier for your researchers, scientists, faculty, and staff to join a collaboration…
February 14, 2020
The InCommon Academy has scheduled the first in a series of training opportunities for 2020, focused on the components of the InCommon Trusted Access Platform. Registration is open for Shibboleth and Grouper workshops (see the dates and locations below). Sign up now to take advantage of early bird rates. Each workshop will lead you through…
January 9, 2020
Internet2 announced the selection of three new members to the InCommon Steering Committee which provides strategic direction, oversight, and recommendations for critical identity management services and offerings that benefit research and higher education in the U.S. The incoming steering committee members are: Michael Berman, chief information officer at The California State University Dave Robinson, chief…
October 23, 2019
New InCommon Participants As of October 17, 2019, InCommon had 1,029 participants. Here are the new participants since the last update in August: Higher Education College of Eastern Idaho John Carroll University Lewis-Clark State College Mars Hill University Research Organization Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Sponsored Partners Axle Informatics Children’s National Health System Concur Technologies Risk…
October 21, 2019
By Ken Klingenstein, Identity EvangelistInternet2 The Original Vision of federated identity anticipated a thriving ecosystem where attributes, more than identities, were carefully exchanged between holders of those attributes and relying parties to provide appropriate services. Privacy would be preserved; scalable access control would be enabled; users would be empowered. What has emerged, however, is much…
October 17, 2019
By Heather Flanagan (Note: This is the third in a series of blog posts highlighting key sessions at this year’s Technology Exchange (TechEx), December 9-13, 2019, in New Orleans). In September 2019, REFEDS (an association of national research and education federations, including InCommon), with the support of NORDUnet and Identity Python, coordinated the first Trust & Identity…
