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[Dean Woodbeck <>]

InCommon News
July 2, 2009

In This Issue:
* New Participants
* New Sponsored Partners
* InCommon Future Update
* Alaska Establishes IdM Department
* Washington Documents Shib 2.1 Upgrade
* InCommon Supports URL-Based entityIDs

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New Participants in June

As of June 28, 2009, InCommon has 159 participants, including 112 higher 
education organizations; six government and nonprofit laboratories, research 
centers and agencies; and 41 sponsored partners.

New participants since June 8 are:

California State University, Dominguez Hills (www.csudh.edu)
California State University, Fullerton (www.fullerton.edu)
California State University, Sacramento (www.csus.edu)
California State University, San Bernardino (www.csusb.edu)
University of Alaska Statewide System (www.alaska.edu)
University of Pennsylvania (www.upenn.edu)

Davie County Schools (www.davie.k12.nc.us/Admin/index.cfm)
Digital Measures (www.digitalmeasures.com)
Lynda.com (www.lynda.com)

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New Sponsored Partners

Digital Measures – Digital Measures makes web-based software for higher 
education. One package helps faculty track their teaching, research, and 
service activities, making it easy to develop accreditation and promotion 
reports, and to keep faculty profiles current on the campus website.  Another 
package provides either online or paper-based course evaluations. 
www.digitalmeasures.com

Lynda.com offers more than 600 online tutorials and training courses. 
www.lynda.com

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Future Group Sends Report to Internet2 Board

The InCommon Future group has finished its report and provided its 
recommendations to the InCommon Steering Committee. The steering committee, 
in turn, has endorsed the Future report and will send it on to the Internet2 
Board of Trustees for consideration at the July 8 meeting. 

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Advanced CAMP Seeks Collaborative IAM Approach

At the recent Advanced Campus Architecture Middleware Planning (CAMP) 
workshop in Philadelphia, open source project representatives, software 
developers and campus deployers met to forge a collaborative approach to 
address common Identity and Access Management (IAM) issues. Read the details 
here: https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/UQBb.

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Alaska Establishes IAM Department

The University of Alaska system has signaled the importance of identity and 
access management (IAM) by establishing a new IAM department within its 
central IT operation. The statewide system has joined InCommon and plans to 
deploy Shibboleth this summer. For more information, go to 
https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/UoBG.

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Washington Documents Shib 2.1 Upgrade

The University of Washington has upgraded its IdP from Shibboleth 1.3 to 
version 2.1 and reports a seamless transition. InCommon expects upgrades to 
become more frequent, as support for v. 1.3 ends in about a year (on June 30, 
2010). This becomes the first real life experience documented in the 
Shibboleth 2 wiki: https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/1Ik9.

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InCommon Supports URL-Based entityIDs

InCommon now supports URL-based entityIDs for IdPs and is encouraging all new 
IdPs to use URLs, as opposed to the traditional URN (Uniform Resource Name) 
The change is to better align our practices with ongoing developments and 
use. For more information, visit the technical services guide on the InCommon 
Collaborate wiki:
https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/vDI .

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