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[Dean Woodbeck <>]

InCommon News
November 2, 2009

In This Issue:
* InCommon at EDUCAUSE
* Library Collaboration Seeks Community Comment
* 2010 Fee Structure, Draft Business Plan Available
* InCommon Accepts Self-Signed Certificates
* NIH Library an Information Commons
* New Participants

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InCommon at EDUCAUSE

There are 14 sessions focused on federating and identity management at 
this week’s EDUCAUSE annual conference.  Sessions will cover identity 
management and governance, federating with federal agencies and the 
National Student Clearinghouse, and other topics. Here’s the list: 
www.incommonfederation.org/educause2009.html. Also, InCommon and the 
Internet2 Middleware Initiative are among the groups being honored with 
the Catalyst Award. This year’s award recognizes federated identity 
management.

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Library Collaboration Seeks Community Comment

The InCommon Library Services Collaboration Vendor Group has produced a 
best practices document for library resource providers and has started a 
registry of resources about service providers that are in various stages 
of federated access. The group invites comment from the community 
through December 15. The documents are available through the wiki space: 
https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/8oU0.

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2010 Fee Structure, Draft Business Plan Available

A recent InCommon Town Hall meeting concerning the federation’s 2010 fee 
structure and proposed business plan is archived and online, along with 
a number of documents. The information includes the draft business plan 
that merges InCommon and the Internet2 Middleware Initiative into the 
InCommon LLC. See https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/y4E0.

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InCommon Accepting Self-Signed Certificates

InCommon now accepts self-signed certificates. This begins a transition 
of the entire federation to self-signed certificates over the next two 
years. Beginning January 2010, InCommon will no longer issue 
certificates signed by the InCommon Certificate Authority. A wiki page 
includes more information, including an archived Adobe Connect session. 
See https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/boY0.

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NIH Library an Information Commons
The National Institutes for Health recently held an open house at its 
new library. Traditionally a place for books and journals, the facility 
has now become an information commons, a place for discovery, research 
assistance and learning. The library is accessible to members of 
InCommon. The open house agenda provides a nice overview of what’s 
available: http://nihlibrary.nih.gov/Features/OpenHouse2009.htm

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New Participants

Since October 1, these identity providers and services providers have 
joined InCommon:

Identity Provider:

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Service Provider:

Good Steward Software

Good Steward Software is the publisher of EnergyCAP Energy Efficiency 
Software (www.energycap.com) and GreenQuest, a personal Web-based energy 
dashboard (www.mygreenquest.com). Good Steward is federating EnergyCAP, 
which is used by over a thousand multi-site organizations to track, 
audit and process utility bills; calculate carbon footprint; evaluate 
the cost avoidance (M&V) of energy retrofit projects; submit building 
data to Energy Star; and more. GreenQuest, which is not being federated 
at this time, is a customized website that sponsors provide to their 
community as a free energy conservation tool. With thirty years of 
industry-leading experience, Good Steward Software is a two-time winner 
of the Inc. 5000 award for fastest growing companies.

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Dean Woodbeck
Internet2/InCommon Outreach