June 2013
Identity Week Features Three Meetings in One Location
Whatever your level of experience or expertise in identity and access management, you'll find something of interest during Identity Week, Nov. 11-15, 2013, in the San Francisco Bay area. We're co-locating three meetings:
Registration will open soon, but mark your calendar today.
Federation Reaches 300 Identity Providers
With the addition of Binghamton University, the InCommon Federation now has 300 identity providers. There are also more than 1,100 service providers in the federation. See a complete list of both. Click the icon at the left for a graphic look at the growth.
Next InCommon Shibboleth Workshop in Portland, Oregon
The next InCommon Shibboleth installation workshop will take place at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, on September 16-17, 2013. The event will be co-sponsored by NWACC. Registration will open on July 9. These workshops provide an in-person, directed self-paced approach to installing the Shibboleth software.
Shibboleth Consortium Formally Launched
The Shibboleth Consortium has been chartered and is formally responsible for the development and adoption of Shibboleth. Internet2, Janet, and SWITCH will all continue to provide major support for the consortium. More information is available at www.shibboleth.net
Affiliate Webinar Kick-Off; All Affiliates Renew
Our friends at Gluu kicked off the new Affiliate webinar series, providing InCommon participants with a look at the services that they provide. Gluu CEO Mike Schwartz gave us a tour of Gluu's hosted solution for Shibboleth.
On a related note, all eight of our 2012 Affiliates have renewed for 2013. Affiliates include Aegis Identity, Fischer International, Gluu, Microsoft, Quest One (part of Dell), Unicon, Vasco, and VivaTech.
New R&S Service Providers
The Open Science Data Cloud Console has been approved for the InCommon Research and Scholarship Category (R&S). R&S allows participating identity providers to release a minimal set of attributes to an entire group of approved services, rather than negotiating attribute release one-by-one. The Open Science Data Cloud provides and supports cloud computing and storage services for the scientific research community.
New Certificate Service Subscribers
The InCommon Certificate Service now has 243 subscribers. We welcome these new members to the community.
- Baylor College of Medicine
- College of Wooster
- Fairfield University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Lock Haven University
- Wallace State Community College
- Weber State University
New Participants
 InCommon currently has 538 participants. We welcome these new participants to the InCommon community |
Higher Education
Research Organizations
Sponsored Partners
New Research Organization
XSEDE is a virtual organization that provides a dynamic distributed infrastructure, support services, and technical expertise that enable
researchers, engineers, and scholars to address the most important and
challenging problems facing the nation and world. XSEDE supports a growing
collection of advanced computing, high-end visualization, data analysis, and other resources and services. XSEDE is funded by the National Science Foundation.
New Sponsored Partners
The Great Plains Network is a regional network with 23 university members in eight states. In addition to advancing networking, GPN has a Cyberinfrastructure Program Committee, headed by Rick McMullen of the University of Arkansas, that is charged with advancing shared CI services to members: Federated identity management via InCommon is a key component of that infrastructure. The first service to roll out was GPN Dropoff for sending large email attachments. GPN Dropoff was designed and is managed by Gordon Springer of the University of Missouri. GPN is also piloting a second storage service using Globus Connect Multi-User with Sharing. GPN first became involved with federated IdM as part of the NMI-EDIT consortium, funded by the NSF's Middleware program.
LabArchives is a leading provider of Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) software for both the academic and commercial sectors. Available in both "Classroom" and "Professional" Editions, LabArchives is used by scientists to manage their laboratory data as well as by instructors and students in lab courses such as chemistry, biology and physics. Our collaborative platform facilitates the storage, searching, and sharing of data as well as improves the educational process for budding scientists.
Internet2 member Tivli is a new, innovative IP-based television service that delivers live streaming access to television programming (national and local) and TV Everywhere products to university students on their terms -- wherever and whenever they want it on campus. Students want to watch prime time TV, live news, sports and entertainment not only in their dorm rooms but on their favorite devices. Tivli offers this through a convenient one-stop, seamless experience: a sleek interface and guide, DVR service (in beta), and On Demand service like HBO GO, as well as interactivity and social features (e.g., see what your Facebook friends are watching/recording). Now, students aren’t only getting entertainment in their residence halls, but they can take it on the go.
Watch this informative webinar on June 27 (2 pm ET) to learn how The University of Arizona's Information Technology Services department decided to employ two-factor authentication to address security challenges within central IT and across campus. 
VivánTech
The InCommon Affiliate Program