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[Dean Woodbeck <>]

InCommon News
September 7, 2010

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In This Issue:

* Registration Open for Day CAMP: Getting Started with the InCommon Federation
* InCommon Cert Service Goes Live
* InCommon Online Forum - Cert Service - Sept. 14
* IAM Online, “Working with Sponsored Partners,” Sept. 16
* “Identity and the Cloud” Half-Day Session at EDUCAUSE
* Gluu Joins InCommon Affiliate Program
* InCommon Welcomes Scavo as Operations Manager
* New Participants

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Registration Open for Day CAMP: Getting Started with the InCommon Federation
InCommon has opened registration for Day CAMP: Getting Started with the 
InCommon Federation, which will take place November 4-5 in Atlanta, Georgia. 
The meeting will feature technical and management information for higher 
education institutions looking to access federated services through InCommon. 
This is immediately following - but separate from - the Internet2 Member 
Meeting. Details and registration are available at 
https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/kwbw.

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InCommon Cert Service Goes Live
The InCommon Cert Service went live on August 20. The service provides 
unlimited certificates for higher education institutions at one low fee. The 
research and higher education community developed this service for pragmatic 
reasons (to reduce costs) and innovative reasons (the first real step toward 
signed email and second-factor authentication). Details on subscribing are at 
www.incommon.org/cert. There are now 10 participating campuses and systems 
(including the University of Texas system, which has 15 universities and 
health centers plus the system office):

University of Alaska
California Institute of Technology 
Carleton College 

University of California Berkeley 
Indiana University 
Iowa State University 

University of Minnesota 
Penn State University 
University of Texas System 

University of Virginia

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InCommon Online Forum - Cert Service - Sept. 14
The latest InCommon Online Forum will provide an overview of the InCommon 
Cert Service, including information on how to subscribe and policy issues. 
The webinar will be held Tuesday, Sept. 14, at 1 p.m. EDT. John Krienke 
(chief operating officer of InCommon) will provide the overview, then Dedra 
Chamberlin and Karl Grose, both of the University of California Berkeley, 
will address questions and issues related to implementation. UC Berkeley 
piloted the service and has the first implementation up and running. See the 
details, including information on how to join the online forum, at 
http://www.incommon.org/forum/.

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IAM Online, “Working with Sponsored Partners,” Sept. 16
The next IAM Online (Thursday, Sept. 16, at 1 p.m. EDT) will focus on working 
with InCommon service providers. Speakers John Harwood (Penn State) and Paul 
Caskey (University of Texas System) will look at the federated services 
available and provide tips on strategies for extending your federated reach 
and bringing new vendors into the federation. Complete information, including 
how to join the IAM Online, is at www.incommon.org/iamonline.

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“Identity and the Cloud” Half-Day Session at EDUCAUSE
A half-day preconference session at EDUCAUSE – “Identity and the Cloud: 
Preparing Your Campus” – will focus on understanding InCommon and federated 
identity management and understanding the value proposition for joining 
InCommon. The session will be held Tuesday, October 12. Presenters include 
John O’Keefe (Lafayette College), Justin Sipher (Skidmore College) and Ann 
West (Internet2/InCommon). For more information, see the EDUCAUSE website 
(http://bit.ly/cdwbXz)

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Gluu Joins InCommon Affiliate Program
Gluu, a federation service provider, has joined the InCommon Affiliate 
Program. This 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).

ABOUT GLUU: Gluu (www.gluu.org) makes it easier for organizations to 
implement federated identity. Gluu’s Federated Identity Appliance, based on 
Shibboleth and identity virtualization, is an on-premise solution monitored 
24×7 and supported by Gluu. Once deployed, federating with new service 
providers (relying parties) can be accomplished using Gluu’s web-based 
dashboard. The Federated Identity Appliance, by mapping identity data from 
existing data stores, can be deployed quickly, and addresses all the 
installation and operational issues of an organizational federated identity 
service at a predictable annual cost. The Federated Identity Appliance can be 
deployed as on-premise hardware or a cloud VM instance.

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InCommon Welcomes Scavo as Operations Manager
Tom Scavo has joined InCommon as operations manager, responsible for managing 
day-to-day technical operations of the federation and trust services. He 
moves to InCommon from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 
where he was manager of the Virtual School of Computational Science and 
Engineering. He has also been a member of the OASIS Security Services (SAML) 
technical committee 

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New Participants in August
InCommon added five participants in August and now has 246 participants (up 
from 199 at the beginning of 2010). There are the participants that joined in 
August.

Higher Education
-       University of Central Florida (www.ucf.edu)
-       East Carolina University (www.ecu.edu)
-       University of Hawaii (www.hawaii.edu)

Sponsored Partners
-       Alexander Street Press (www.alexanderstreet.com)
-       IEEE (www.ieee.org)

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About Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street (http://www.alexanderstreet.com) is an electronic publisher 
of award-winning online collections in the humanities and social sciences 
totaling many millions of pages, audio tracks, videos, images, and playlists. 
Through building high-quality collections across the humanities, Alexander 
Street provides unique resources for scholarship — in literature, music, 
women’s history, black history, psychological counseling and therapy, social 
and cultural history, drama, theater, film, and the performing arts, 
religion, sociology, and other emerging areas.

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About IEEE
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) (www.ieee.org) is 
the world’s largest technical professional association dedicated to advancing 
technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. With 
over 395,000 members in over 160 countries, IEEE members are engineers, 
scientists and allied professionals whose technical interests are rooted in 
electrical and computer sciences, engineering and related disciplines.  IEEE 
publishes nearly a third of the world’s technical literature in electrical 
engineering, computer science and electronics. IEEE journals are consistently 
among the most highly cited in electrical and electronics engineering, 
telecommunications and other technical fields. IEEE publications are 
available to academic institutions, corporations and government agencies 
around the world via the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library 
(http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/guesthome.jsp), which provides access to 
more than 2.5 million full-text documents comprising IEEE journals, 
transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings and standards.

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