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[Dean Woodbeck <>]

InCommon Online Forum:
InCommon Technical Advisory Committee (TAC)

Thursday, February 25, 2010
1 p.m. EST / Noon CST / 11 a.m. MST / 10 a.m. PST

The InCommon TAC will host a one-hour online forum to discuss recent 
issues of importance to federation participants. We will use Adobe 
Connect for slide sharing and have a discussion about these topics. 
Audio is available either via Adobe Connect or via a conference call 
bridge. If you use Adobe Connect, questions can be asked only by the 
chat function.

Please plan to join us.

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Agenda

1.    SAML 2 profiles/support

InCommon has added support for SAML 2.0 and continues to plan for 
additional features. This discussion will outline current InC support. 
Related to this, InCommon also encourages participants to upgrade to 
Shibboleth version 2.x. The Shibboleth Project has announced an 
end-of-life date of June 30, 2010, for version 1.3.x.

2.    uApprove

SWITCH, the Swiss federation, has developed uApprove, a mechanism to 
inform a user (and allow the user to approve/disapprove) about the 
release of attributes to a Service Provider (SP). This provides a tool 
to implement data protection laws by requiring to obtain user consent 
before his/her personal attributes are released. This discussion will 
provide an update of the adoption of uApprove in the U.S.

3.    Technical priorities

The InCommon TAC maintains a list of technical issues and priorities for 
the InCommon Federation. This discussion will provide information about 
the issues and ways for federation participants to provide input and 
feedback

4.    Your item here (as time permits)

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