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Title: InCommon Newsletter - January 2013

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January 2013

IAM Online: Scalable Privacy, the Identity Ecosystem, and the NSTIC Grant

The next IAM Online webinar (Wednesday, January 16, 2013, at 1 pm EST) will feature Ken Klingenstein and an update on the Internet2 NSTIC grant, which will fund the building of a privacy infrastructure with informed user consent, using common attributes. See the details and please plan to join us.

2012 Featured Growth for InCommon, the Federation, and the Certificate Service

As we close out the 2012 calendar (and, for us, fiscal) year, some quick stats on InCommon (charts included below):

• 39 percent growth rate in participants (see the chart)
• 49 percent growth in certificate subscribers (see the chart)
• mid-year, the federation surpassed 1,000 entities and now stands at 1,241 (see the chart)

InCommon Participants (click on chart for larger version)

InCommon Certificate Service

InCommon Federation - Total Entities (identity and service providers) (click on chart for larger version)

New Certificate Service Subscribers

The InCommon Certificate Service ended 2012 with 214 subscribers, including these new subscribers in December.

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Sacred Heart University
• Western Kentucky University
• Willamette University

New Participants in December

InCommon ended the year with 488 participants. We welcome these new participants (since early December) to the InCommon community

Higher Education

• Harvard Business School (www.hbs.edu)
• Kutztown University (www.kutztown.edu)
• University of Georgia (www.uga.edu)
• University of Houston Libraries (info.lib.uh.edu)
• University of Tennessee (www.utk.edu)
• University of Wisconsin-River Falls (www.uwrf.edu)
• William Paterson University (www.wpunj.edu)

Sponsored Partners

• GradesFirst (www.gradesfirst.com)
• MyUnidays (www.myunidays.com)
• ServiceNow (www.servicenow.com)

New Sponsored Partners

UNiDAYS is a fast growing international service provider brokering student exclusive discounts with leading worldwide retailers and booksellers. Operating in five federations worldwide, including the UK Access Management Federation and the Australian Access Federation, Unidays requires a minimal attribute set to verify student status to provide access to our exclusive promotions. With close to 1 million students already benefiting from our service around the world, we hope to help your students improve their academic and social lives as a reward for pursuing education.

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Featured Events

January 16, 2013
IAM Online - 1 pm ET
Scalable Privacy: An NSTIC Pilot program for the Identity Ecosystem
www.incommon.org/iamonline

Join featured speaker Ken Klingenstein for information about how Internet2 and partner campuses plan to use this grant to help build a consistent and robust privacy infrastructure, through common attributes, user-effective privacy managers, anonymous credentials, and the InCommon Federation. See the website for details on the program and how to participate.

Affiliate Features

Unicon will offer two training sessions—one for CAS/Shibboleth and one for Grouper—on January 17, 2013, immediately following the Jasig/Sakai unconference. For details and registration information, go to www.unicon.net.

Gluu will host a webinar on Friday, January 11 (2 pm ET), to demonstrate its cloud federation identity service, now in use by 15 campuses.

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