InCommon Federation Discussions About Online Student Services

[Dean Woodbeck <>]

InCommon Student Working Group Notes ­ August 9, 2013

Attending:
Elaine Alejo, Internet2
Brendan Bellina, University of Southern California
Tim Cameron, CommIT
Steve Hahn, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mark McConnahay, Indiana University
Arnie Miles, Georgetown University
Harry Nicholos, North Carolina State University
Mike Reilly, AACRAO
Tim Reger, AACRAO
Mike Sessa, PESC
Doug Shook, University of Southern California
Vince Timbers, Penn State
Shel Waggener, Internet2
Ann West, Internet2/InCommon
Dean Woodbeck, Internet2/InCommon (scribe)

Agenda and Summary

Today¹s meeting is to hear about the current status of the CommIT project
and information about participating in a pilot of the service. Ann West
presented a series of slides that outlined the problems to be solved by
CommIT and the value proposition.

In summary, CommIT will run a single sign-on service for participating
organizations, with the purpose of providing credentials and
authentication for potential college students. CommIT will provide a
process for matching electronic records for college applicants and
institutions, through federated SSO.

Tim Cameron reviewed the CommIT pilot and the deliverables. The goals of
the pilot are to:
* Test the infrastructure to ensure proper functioning
        
* Test the process flows to ensure ease of use
        
* Validate the value proposition
        
* Inform the final production service functioning and features
        
* Inform the marketing and communications of the final production service
        
* Determine the help desk and support requirements

Pilot participation:
* The call for pilot participation (for higher ed) closes Oct. 1, 2013
        
* The call for vendor participation closes Nov. 1, 2013
        
* The pilots will last somewhere between 1-18 months

There is a cost associated with pilot participation to cover the expense
of site process integration. However, the $5,000 fee is waived for those
who are both members of PESC and InCommon participants. Those interested
should email Tim Cameron 
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Signing up for the pilot does not commit an institution to commit to
production ­ that is the next step. The full pilot information packet will
be available August 14. The pilot will be limited to 3-5 institutions and
1-3 vendors, to keep things manageable.

Ann West, Tim Cameron, and Shel Waggener are all willing to meet with
potential pilot participants and stakeholder for discussion and questions.