April 2014
InCommon, Middleware Sessions at Internet2 Global Summit
The program has come together for the Internet2 Global Summit, April 6-10 in Denver. If you are going, you can
use this blog post to start mapping out your schedule.
IAM Online April 30: Multi-Context Broker and Multifactor Authentication
The next IAM Online will feature the community-developed Multi-Context Broker, an extension to Shibboleth that significantly eases the integration of multifactor authentication technologies and the
management of InCommon Assurance Profiles. Join us April 30 at 3 pm (ET) for an overview and campus case studies and solutions. You can receive announcements about the monthly IAM Online webinar series by sending email to
with the subject: subscribe iamonline
Cirrus Identity Joins Affiliate Program
Cirrus Identity has become the newest member
of the InCommon Affiliate Program. The company has recently launched the
Cirrus Gateway, which enables campuses to quickly and easily grant access to parents, alumni, incoming students, research collaborators and more using social identities such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Two campuses will use the Cirrus Gateway
service this Spring: Brown University, for use with their continuing education program and testing with the new alumni portal, and Penn State, for their confluence wiki and an online scholarship repository.
Shibboleth Installation Training Scheduled for July, September
We have confirmed dates and locations for two more InCommon Shibboleth Installation Workshops: July 24-25 in Indian pol is and September 29-30 in Newark, New Jersey. Registration is not yet open, but if you would like to receive an email when it is, you
can subscribe to an announcement list by sending email to with this in the subject line: subscribe shibtraining. Visit the
Shib training web page
for more information about the training and the curriculum.
New Members and Expanded Role for InCommon Steering Committee
Internet2 has appointed several higher education IT leaders to the InCommon Steering Committee. That committee will also serve as the core of the newly expanded Trust and Identity in Education and Research (TIER) program advisory group. A list of the new
members, and and explanation of the TIER concept, are in the
full announcement in our wiki news feed.
Federation Deploys New Metadata Aggregates
InCommon operations has phased out the legacy metadata aggregate and replaced it with new metadata aggregates on a new vhost (md.incommon.org). All SAML deployments were asked to migrate to one of the new aggregates by
March 29, 2014. An important driver is to migrate to SHA-2 throughout the federation. Read details
on the wiki.
InCommon Welcomes Harvey Mudd as 600th Participant
Harvey Mudd College located in Claremont, California, became the
600th InCommon participant earlier this year. As of this writing, InCommon has
615 participants, including 423 higher education, 30 research organizations, and 160 sponsored partners.
New Certificate Service Subscribers
The
InCommon Certificate Service now has 278 subscribers. We welcome this new member to the community.
- Davidson County Community College
- Longwood University
- Madison Area Technical College
- North Carolina State University
- Otis College of Art & Design
- Rancho Santiago Community College District
- Roanoke College
- The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
- University of North Carolina at Pembroke
- University of Oregon
- Vanderbilt University
- Washington State University
- Wilmington University
New Participants
 InCommon currently
has 615 participants. We welcome these new participants to the InCommon community |
Higher Education
- American University of Beirut
- American University of Sharjah
- Central Connecticut State University
- Chesapeake College
- Claremont McKenna College
- Davidson County Community College
- Drew University
- Full Sail University
- Gettysburg College
- Harvey Mudd College
- Kenyon College
- Longwood University
- Madison Area Technical College
- Montana State University
- Oakland Community College
- Otis College of Art & Design
- Philadelphia University
- Rancho Santiago Community College District
- Roanoke College
- Texas A&M – Corpus Christi
- The Rockefeller University
- University of Alabama in Huntsville
- University of Nevada Las Vegas
- University of Puget Sound
- University of Wisconsin – Platteville
- Wilmington University
Research Organizations
- The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Sponsored Partners
(Sponsored partners are companies or other organizations that provide federated services to InCommon participants)
- Blue Jeans Network
- Center for Research Libraries
- ESM Solutions
- Kaltura
- Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center
- SC Logic
- Springshare
- Stoodify
Blue Jeans Network (www.bluejeans.com) was founded in November 2009 with a passion to make video communications easy. Starting
from the ground up, Blue Jeans was built as a cloud-based conferencing service to enable people to connect with each other any time, any place and from any device. Every phone call should be a video call and we are designing the technology to make that happen.
The Center for Research Libraries (www.crl.edu) is an international
consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries. Founded in 1949, CRL supports advanced research and teaching in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences by preserving and making available to scholars the primary source material
critical to those disciplines.
Manage your bids, spend, contracts, suppliers, invoices, expenses and reports with
ESM Solutions' (www.esmsolutions.com) spend management solution suite. Automate your procure-to-pay process and discover savings with our easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use cloud-based platform. ESM Solutions helps organizations
of all sizes and complexities build a more efficient, cost-effective eProcurement process.
Kaltura's (www.kaltura.com)
mission is to power any video experience. Provider of the world's first Open Source Online Video Platform, Kaltura simplifies the creation of video experiences, and provides tools that facilitate innovative and engaging experiences that create value. Kaltura
offers next generation learning for millions of students and teachers by providing educational institutions with disruptive online video solutions for improved teaching, learning, and increased engagement across campuses and beyond. Kaltura's solutions include
seamless video extensions for all Leading LMS platforms — Blackboard, Desire2Learn, Moodle, Sakai and Canvas, as well as the Kaltura CampusTube social video portal, and more. Customers include NYU, Cornell, Stanford, University of Utah, Oregon State University
and hundreds of additional educational institutions.
The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) (www.mghpcc.org) is a collaboration
between five of the most research-intensive universities in Massachusetts — University of Massachusetts, MIT, Harvard, Northeastern, and Boston Universities — to operate a data center dedicated to research computing, and to encourage collaborative computationally
intensive research. Computing resources in the MGHPCC enable new discoveries in science, engineering, and the humanities. The MGHPCC is also well suited as a proving ground for new technologies and techniques in networking, computing, and energy management.
The MGHPCC is using the InCommon identity management federation to enable single sign-on to portal, shared computing, and storage resources for its member universities.
Founded by Michael B. Saldi in 1996 as a barcode data company,
SCLogic™ (www.sclogic.com) develops, sells and supports SCLIntra™ package tracking software. SCLIntra is used to monitor and control the flow of tangible objects — mail, parcels, property, files or people
— as they enter, move through, and exit a facility. The application and our mobility expertise grew early in the company history and was driven by our early successes in the rugged mobility marketplace. SCLogic is dedicated to the use of wireless technologies,
mobile computing technologies and the latest security protocols to provide clients with the kinds of applications that address their deepest industry challenges.
Springshare (www.springshare.com) provides cloud-based software solutions to 4,500+ libraries in 60 countries.
Academic, public, special, and K-12 libraries use Springshare’s web apps to create and curate engaging library content (LibGuides); to manage library events, calendars, and room bookings (LibCal); to provide online reference and helpdesk services (LibAnswers);
and to analyze library usage statistics (LibAnalytics). We’re excited to work with our sponsor University of Chicago and with all other InCommon members to enable smooth patron authentication into Springshare’s software suite.
Stoodify (www.stoodify.com)
is a cloud-based application that centralizes classroom-related communication. Stoodify enables students and instructors to connect and collaborate conveniently and efficiently through group and private messaging, document sharing, and integration of existing
school Learning Management Systems. As technology expands the walls of the classroom, schools are looking for ways to integrate emerging technologies while fully utilizing previous investments in existing software. Stoodify bridges the gap between current
functionality and comprehensive connectivity using cutting edge, cloud-based technology.
The InCommon Affiliate Program
With its award-winning identity management solution "Federation On-Ramp,"
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