InCommon Federation Discussions About Online Student Services

[Jeff Alderson <>]

Arnie,

I am going to try to attend the call, as I am very interested in this open source solution.  In case I get double booked, can you raise the following questions with Jimmy?

• The docs mention that multiple "userids" can be assigned to a specific person.  Would we use this for our approach, or would we focus on the service provisioners method of connecting all the various service providers?  Is there a linkage between SPs and userids?
• Have you considered other message queuing implementations for Service Provisioners to subscribe to events, such as MSMQS?  Is that something we would need to build adapters for as service providers?
• Can the automatic generation of person_id be configured to be anything but a one-up sequence?  Can we do something more secure/guaranteed unique like using UUIDs?  Would that require code modification?
• Are the Identity Assurance Profiles compatible with InCommon or NIST assurance levels?  If so, which ones are supported?
• There seems to be mention of commercial software being required to support person Matching as well as address validation.  Can you identify the commercial provider used and licensing costs associated with the current implementation?  Is there any possibility of developing or using an open source alternative?  Our goal may be to provide a pure free and open source (FOSS) stack here.

Thanks again for making this available.

Jeff

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From: Arnie Miles <>
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Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 9:12 AM
To: CommIT mailing list <>, InCommon Students Mailing List <>, EA2 Mailing List <>
Subject: [admissions-project] This week's CommIT Technical working group call

Hi all,

In a "very special" (remember all those '70's TV special events?) CommIT Technical Working Group call, Jimmy Vuccolo from Penn State will be visiting to discuss the Central Person Registry, and it's potential place in CommIT.

The Central Person Registry is a open source product from Penn State. I'm not going to steal Jimmy's thunder, but it should handle user provisioning, matching, password management, and other chores that we have identified as requirements for CommIT.

You can read more about it:

https://wikispaces.psu.edu/display/IAM/Central+Person+Registry+Design+Wiki

I've already sent out a Collaborate web conference announcement. For those who aren't on the admissions-project list, the details are repeated at the bottom of this message. The dial-in numbers for those who don't want to or can't connect to the web conference is the same as it's always been. Assuming I can get things working correctly, the web conference will be dialed into the teleconference bridge.

We'll see.

866-411-0013 PIN: 0104082#

Anyway, I'm looking forward to an interesting meeting. This will be our first teleconference after the round of successful demonstrations we've gone through, and I'm excited to get re-started on things.

Arnie

Admissions Project:

You are invited to attend the following Blackboard Collaborate session:

Name:	Commit Tech Working Group Call - Central Person Registry Demonstration
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