Assurance

[Ann West <>]

Jacob, 

DoEd Federal Student Aid (FSA) offers a number of services, as you know, and 
each one maintains it's own credentials. They're trying to consolidate their 
portfolio architecture to achieve the following goals as presented by Mike 
Fillinich at PESC this morning:
 
o        Reduce sign-on
o        Increase useage of two-factor
o        Move away from hard-token to soft-token
o        Improve identity proofing
o        Deploy Self Service and usage of profiles
o        Conform to Federal identity management initiatives

On our pilot call last week, Richard Gordon (FSA CIO) was not specific about 
which service they might pilot next year. As you know, the big rub for 
students is supporting the 20 years of loan pay-back and how to enable that. 
On our future calls, we'll be discussing these plans further so stay tuned. 

Ann

----- Original Message -----
> Ann,
> 
> Do you know what kind of systems that they're talking about?  I can
> see the value for employee access, but since the student's
> relationship with the DOE continues after they separate from the
> university, I'm curious about the value that DOE gets from federated
> access for students.
> 
> Jacob
> 
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> Subject: [Assurance] Assurance Biz Case: Update on DoEd
> 
> All,
> 
> DoEd is re-architecting their identity and access systems in response
> to requests for simplifying access to their systems and leverage
> third-party credentials.
> 
> InCommon/EDUCAUSE had a call last week with DoEd FSA (Fin Aid) about
> kicking-off InCommon interoperability pilot at the end of this year
> with a possible service pilot next year.
> 
> Initial discussions about LoA indicate that they will require Silver
> Assurance for student access and LoA 3/two-factor for staff/Fin Aid
> Officer access.
> 
> Target rollout of production application(s) is 2013.
> 
> Best,
> Ann
> 
> --
> Ann West
> Assistant Director,
> Assurance and Community
> Internet2/InCommon/Michigan Tech
> 
> office: +1.906.487.1726
> 
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