December 2013
Holiday Hours - Limited Metadata Signing
The Internet2 offices will close starting December 24, 2013, and reopen on January 2, 2014. InCommon will only sign metadata
once during this holiday break -- on Monday, December 30, 2013 (at approximately 2:30 pm ET).
Read more.
IAM Online Dec. 13: "Trust and Identity: Beyond the Federation"
Join us for the next IAM Online (Dec. 13 at 3 pm ET) to learn more about InCommon's expanding role in Trust and Identity for higher education. Internet2/InCommon has conducted a comprehensive review of the identity and access control landscape, and the InCommon
Steering Committee will take a leading and expanded role in Trust and Identity.
www.incommon.org/iamonline
U of Nebraska Medical Center First to Self-Attest Bronze Certification
The University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) has become the second higher-education organization to become certified for the Bronze Identity Assurance Profile under the InCommon Assurance Program. UNMC is also the first to use the simplified (representation
of conformance) method. See the details.
InCommon Affiliate Webinar Dec. 18: Aegis Identity and the K-20 Impact of IAM.
Join us for the next InCommon Affiliate Webinar, “The Impact of Identity and Access Management with Federation on P-20 Individualized Learning and Cloud Resources,” presented by Aegis Identity Software, Inc., San Diego State University, and the IlliniCloud.
The date is December 18, at 2 pm ET.
See the details.
Federation Deploying New Metadata Aggregates
On December 18, InCommon operations will deploy three new metadata aggregates on a new vhost (md.incommon.org). All SAML deployments will be asked to migrate to one of the new aggregates. An important driver is to migrate
to SHA-2 throughout the federation. Read details
on the wiki.
Research & Scholarship at 63 IdPs
Sixty-three identity providers support the Research & Scholarship category by releasing a limited, defined set of attributes to the entire category. The category is open to service providers that support research and scholarly activities. There are currently
15 service providers in the category. For more information, a link to the list of R&S IdPs and SPs, and to see how you can support the category,
see the wiki.
New Certificate Service Subscribers
The
InCommon Certificate Service now has 264 subscribers. We welcome this new member to the community.
New Participants
 InCommon currently
has 588 participants. We welcome these new participants to the InCommon community |
Higher Education
- Bryant University
- University of Wisconsin-Stout
Sponsored Partners
(Sponsored partners are companies or other organizations that provide federated services to InCommon participants)
The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of
Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections. As a member of the HathiTrust, a partnership of academic and research institutions, the Library joins peer institutions
in offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. InCommon membership enables the Library to offer registered readers full access to the HathiTrust collections.
The InCommon Affiliate Program
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