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[Dean Woodbeck <>]

InCommon News
May 5, 2010

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In This Issue:

* CAMP Early-Bird Deadline May 10
* Advance CAMP Early-Bird Deadline Also Approaching
* IAM Online May 13: Toward Common Identity Services
* Featured Affiliate: AegisUSA
* New Case Studies from InCommon
     - National Student Clearinghouse Federates Student Self-Service
     - Drivers for the California State University System
* InCommon Certificate Service to Roll Out This Summer
* Bronze, Silver Identity Assurance Profiles Submitted to ICAM
* New Participants
* New Sponsored Partners
* InCommon Affiliate Program Welcomes Unicon, AegisUSA

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CAMP: Exploring and Supporting Federated Identity Management
Early-Bird Registration Deadline May 10

The early-bird registration deadline is fast approaching for CAMP: Exploring 
and Supporting Federated Identity Management. CAMP includes sessions for new 
InCommon participants (and those considering joining), as well as a track for 
management and technical implementers with federated IdM already in place. 
www.incommon.org/camp. 

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Advance CAMP: The Second Identity Services Summit
Early-Bird Deadline May 10

Advance CAMP: The Second Identity Services Summit will be a 
discussion-oriented, participant-driven meeting to develop new IAM 
requirements for current projects, products, and development frameworks; and 
to set the direction for the community on what's next for identity-related 
activities and resources. The early-bird registration deadline is May 10. 
www.incommon.org/camp.
 
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IAM Online May 13 – Toward Common Identity Services

This session will look at identity services problems by considering two 
specific examples. One is the integration of uPortal with Grouper, and the 
other is an implementation of the permissions service of Kuali Identity 
Management (KIM) with a campus privilege management system. This IAM Online 
will preview the types of objectives of the Advance CAMP: The Second Identity 
Services Summit. www.incommonfederation.org/iamonline.html.

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Featured Affiliate for May: AegisUSA

AegisUSA is a Denver-based identity management solution provider. With more 
than 50 clients in higher education, AegisUSA brings a high level of 
experience and expertise to the InCommon Affiliate program. With its 
Federated Identity Appliance for Education (hardware or VM version), the 
company provides a turnkey, cost-effective solution for universities (IdP's) 
to join InCommon in 30 days or less.  www.aegisusa.com
 
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New Case Studies from InCommon

InCommon released two new case studies at the 2010 Internet2 Spring Member 
Meeting last week. One looks at the pilot between Stanford University and the 
National Student Clearinghouse and the other demonstrates the California 
State University system’s plans for federating. www.incommon.org/cases.html

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InCommon Certificate Service to Roll Out This Summer

InCommon has reached an agreement, in principle, to offer the InCommon 
Certificate Service to the higher education community, providing unlimited 
server and personal certificates at a low, fixed fee. Full rollout is 
expected this summer. www.incommon.org/cert

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Bronze, Silver Identity Assurance Profiles Submitted to ICAM

InCommon has submitted its Bronze and Silver Identity Assurance Profiles to 
the ICAM (Identity, Credential, and Access Management) program of the federal 
government’s GSA. Acceptance by ICAM would approve InCommon as a trust 
framework provider for the federal government.

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New Participants in April

Higher Education
-       University at Albany, State University of New York (www.albany.edu)
-       Coconino County Community College (www.coconino.edu)

Sponsored Partners
-       CSO Research (www.csoresearch.com)
-       Leepfrog Technologies (www.leepfrog.com)

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New Sponsored Partners

CSO Research, Inc. (www.csoresearch.com) is an Austin-based software company 
that automates university career services offices.  CSO's software manages 
all aspects of career centers, internship offices, student employment offices 
and volunteer centers at hundreds of universities in North America and the 
UK.  CSO's academic clients use its web-based product to manage student, 
employer and faculty relationships, distribute job posting and career fair 
information to students, help employers to attend job fairs and
interview students on-campus, and find full- and part-time jobs for students 
and alumni. CSO serves over 500 campuses and over one million college 
students per year.

Leepfrog Technologies (www.leepfrog.com) is a software development firm, 
offering a content management system, a catalog management system, a 
high-volume email delivery system, and other campus-oriented technologies.

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New Affiliates

InCommon welcomes the first two members of the new Affiliates Program, which 
provides the research and education community a way to connect with partners 
able to help build the necessary underlying infrastructure that supports 
federated access. www.incommon.org/affiliate

Unicon, Inc., is a leading provider of IT consulting services for the 
education market, specializing in using open source technologies to deliver 
flexible and cost-effective systems in the areas of enterprise portals, LMS, 
authentication, video, calendaring, email, and collaboration. Unicon services 
for Shibboleth Federated Single Sign-On Service include implementation 
planning, branding, installation, configuration, custom development, 
mentoring and support. www.unicon.net.

AegisUSA is an identity management solution provider with experience with 
more than 60 clients. AegisUSA’s solutions include identity appliances, 
identity assessments, and custom implementations for Oracle, Sun, Microsoft, 
and open source software. The AegisUSA Federated Identity Appliance for 
Education provides turnkey, production-ready infrastructure necessary to 
enable federated SSO with members of the InCommon Federation. 
www.aegisusa.com.

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