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[Dean Woodbeck <>]

Select Internet2 Applications Now Accept Google IDs

Individuals can now use their Google IDs to log into four select Internet2
services. The Google Gateway will initially provide access to the InCommon
Federation Manager, Internet2¹s collaboration wiki, and two applications
soon to be used by the Multifactor Authentication (MFA) Cohortium that is
supported by Internet2¹s Scalable Privacy Project from the National
Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace.

"This provides our collaborators with one more way to easily and
efficiently access these services," said John Krienke, chief operating
officer of Internet2's InCommon. "With the rise in the number of campuses
using Google identities, and the broad range of people interested in
collaborating on our wiki, we thought this would be a good way to test the
waters with a gateway."

Internet2 contracted with Cirrus Identity to develop the gateway. Cirrus
Identity provides a cloud-hosted, securely managed solution for leveraging
social identities in a federation. InCommon is the U.S. identity
federation serving higher education, research organizations, and their
corporate partners.

The gateway can be used by delegated administrators to access the InCommon
Federation Manager. Anything a delegated administrator does in the
Federation Manager must be approved by the organization¹s site
administrator, which addresses any security concerns related to using a
social identity for access. Likewise, the Internet2 wiki, and the wiki and
registry used by the MFA group, have an emphasis on wide collaboration and
ease of access, for which the Google Gateway is a good fit.

For more information, please see the wiki page at
https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/q4KZAg

*NOTE FOR EDUCAUSE ATTENDEES:* There is a session on "Social2SAML
Gateways" on Thursday, Oct. 17, 9:10 - 10 am (PT) in room 212A/B.
Presenters include InCommon¹s John Krienke, Dedra Chamberlin of Cirrus
Identity, and Christopher Keith and Catherine Zabriskie of Brown
University.