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[Dean Woodbeck <>]

InCommon News
August 1, 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 August 1, 2009, InCommon has 163 participants, including 116 higher 
education organizations; six government and nonprofit laboratories, research 
centers and agencies; and 41 sponsored partners.

New participants since July 2 are:

Fairfield University (www.fairfield.edu)
San Jose State University (www.sjsu.edu)
University of Illinois at Chicago (www.uic.edu)
California State University, Fresno (www.csufresno.edu)

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New Sponsored Partners

No new sponsored partners this month.

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Global Academic Publisher Deploys Shibboleth

Semantico Limited, a leading provider of services and technology for online 
publishing, has completed deployment of the Shibboleth access management 
protocol across all its sites for global academic publisher Palgrave 
Macmillan. Details are here:
www.newswiretoday.com/news/53992/

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Future Group Collecting Additional Information

The Internet2 Board of Trustees has asked for additional information before 
considering the InCommon Future report. The board asked for a complete 
financial plan, as well as additional information on the proposed governance 
of InCommon. The Internet2 board is expected to consider the additional 
information at its September meeting. 

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InCommon Seeking Case Study Ideas

You’ll find a number of case studies on the InCommon website. These are short 
documents that demonstrate the value of a federated application, based on its 
use at a college or university. We’re always looking for ideas. If you have a 
particularly successful implementation you’d like to share, please email Dean 
at InCommon (). A complete list of current case studies 
are on the web at www.incommonfederation.org/cases.html.

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news feed, an email list for announcements and news, a collaboration wiki, 
and a number of collaboration groups, all of which maintain email lists. 
You’ll find information about all of these options, and how to subscribe, on 
the InCommon website: www.incommonfederation.org/contacts.cfm

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