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[Dean Woodbeck <>]

InCommon News
July 7, 2010

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In This Issue:

* IAM Online July 8: Eduroam in the U.S.
* Shibboleth Workshop Series July 28, 29
* Identity Management #5 on the Top-Ten IT Issues List
* National Student Clearinghouse Federates Student Self-Service
* Federating with EDUCAUSE
* Shibboleth 1.3 Reaches End-of-Life
* New Participants

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IAM Online July 8 – Eduroam in the U.S.

Eduroam (www.eduroamus.org) allows students, researchers and staff from 
participating institutions to obtain Internet connectivity when visiting 
other participating institutions. Authentication is done by the user's home 
institution, while authorization is done by the visited network. Eduroam is 
widely deployed in Europe, and also in Japan, Australia, and Canada. This IAM 
Online (July 8; 1 p.m. EDT) will look at efforts to broaden deployment in the 
U.S. 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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Identity Management #5 on the Top-Ten IT Issues List

Identity and Access Management ranks as the fifth largest critical challenge 
facing IT leaders, according to an annual survey by EDUCAUSE. Information is 
available in the current issue of EDUCAUSE Review 
(www.educause.edu/library/ERM1032). Additional information, including 
background reading and demographic breakdowns of the survey results, are 
available at www.educause.edu/2010IssuesResources

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National Student Clearinghouse Federates Student Self-Service

The National Student Clearinghouse has made access to its popular web-based 
Student Self-Service application available through InCommon. Participants can 
seamlessly provide their students with access to Student Self-Service by 
leveraging its existing campus identity management system. See more: 
https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/b4Td

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Federating With EDUCAUSE

Institutions that are InCommon participants and also members of EDUCAUSE can 
begin using federated access to a some of the EDUCAUSE web-based resources. 
To get started, your institution’s EDUCUASE representative needs to follow a 
one-time set-up procedure. More information: 
https://www.educause.edu/idp_setup/info
 
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Shibboleth 1.3 Reaches End-of-Life

As announced a number of months ago, Shibboleth v. 1.3 will no longer be 
supported. The Shibboleth team strongly encourages sites still using 1.3 to 
plan an upgrade to version 2.X as soon as possible. 
https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/ZYPn

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New Participants in June

Higher Education
-       University of Baltimore (www.ubalt.edu)
-       California State University, Los Angeles (www.calstatela.edu)
-       Utah State University (www.usu.edu)
-       University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (www.uwm.edu)

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Dean Woodbeck
Program Manager, InCommon

(734) 352-7007
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