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[Dean Woodbeck <>]

InCommon News
June 7, 2010

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In This Issue:

* IAM Online June 10: Handling Affiliate Populations
* Shibboleth Workshop Series July 28, 29
* Featured Affiliate for June: Unicon
* InCommon Signs Certificate Service Agreement
* CAMP and Advance CAMP Full
* New Participants
* New Sponsored Partners

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IAM Online June 10 – Handling Affiliate Populations

Guests, parents and other affiliated populations may fall outside of the norm 
for an identity management system that was originally developed to 
accommodate faculty, staff and students. The next IAM Online (June 10; 1 p.m. 
EDT) will explore the capabilities of a guest and affiliate system and ways 
in which to track these populations, including provisioning and 
deprovisioning services. Speakers are Brendan Bellina from the University of 
Southern California, and Liz Salley from the University of Michigan. For 
details, go to www.incommon.org/iamonline.

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Shibboleth Workshop Series July 28, 29

Have you decided to deploy a web single sign-on (SSO) system and leverage it 
to access resources and contracted services in the InCommon Federation? Do 
you need training on installation and support? Consider attending one or both 
of the sessions in the Shibboleth Workshop Series (two one-day workshops - 
one for identity provider and one for service provider), July 28-29 at 
Northwestern University. See the details at 
www.incommon.org/educate/shibboleth.

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Featured Affiliate for June: Unicon

InCommon Affiliates 
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 include implementation planning, branding, installation, 
configuration, custom development, mentoring and support. 
www.unicon.net/opensource/Shibboleth

The Affiliate Program connects higher education institutions and their 
federating partners with commercial or non-profit organizations that provide 
software, content, guidance, support, and implementation and integration 
services related to participating in the federation. 
www.incommon.org/affiliate

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InCommon Signs Certificate Service Agreement

InCommon has signed the agreement with Comodo to offer the InCommon 
Certificate Service to the higher education community, providing unlimited 
server and personal certificates at a low, fixed fee. Beta testing is getting 
underway now, with full rollout of SSL certs expected this summer, with 
personal certs to follow. To join the announce-only email list, send email to 
 with this in the subject: subscribe inc-cert. 
More information is available at www.incommon.org/cert

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CAMP and Advance CAMP Full

Two meetings set for June 21-25 have filled and registration is closed. CAMP: 
Exploring and Supporting Federated Identity, and Advance CAMP: The Second 
Identity Services Summit, have both exceeded registration expectations. 

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New Participants in May

Sponsored Partners
    - University of Southampton (www.soton.ac.uk)
    - Fragomen (www.fragomen.com)

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New Sponsored Partners

The University of Southampton (www.soton.ac.uk) is one of the top 15 research 
universities in the UK and has achieved consistently high scores for its 
teaching and learning activities.  The School of Geography is collaborating 
with University of Leeds (UK) and Penn State University in the provision an 
online GIS Masters Program. Through its membership of InCommon, Southampton 
is working to provide access to its VLE (Blackboard) to relevant students at 
PSU and Leeds.  This will enable students from all three institutions to 
collaborate and learn together online. Southampton would like to thank PSU 
for kindly sponsoring its membership.

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