“AdmitMe” pilot project conference call, 09/09/2011

Attendees:

Arnie Miles   Georgetown University

Nate Klingenstein   InCommon

Tim McGraw   CommonApp

Brendan Bellina  USC

Ann West InCommon

Michael Gettes

Vince Timbers Penn State

Jim Farmer Georgetown University

Randy Strother  College Board

Agenda:

1. Prototype requirements document
2. Training
   1. Nate Klingenstein introduced to group. Personalized training is being offered. Nate will meet with them individually to help them set up a test SP. Will try to make most calls.
   2. Do we want the spaces site to be restricted?
      1. Everyone will need to get accounts
      2. What is and what is not sensitive?
      3. IP guidelines (I2?)
         1. Everything you say on the all is public
            

Previous Action Items:

1. Ann: training and education
   1. Got Nate involved for training
   2. 5 scheduled for training already
   3. there may be others
   4. Vendors: check to see if they can commit resources
      1. Identify who is going to participate in training.
      2. Tim will do the log-in pages on behalf of CommonApp
      3. Penn State and USC to send Arnie registration data
         1. Talk to Michael Gettes about identities
         2. Georgetown getting resources set up for identity store and IdP
         3. Penn State will mock up admissions page using AdmitMe
         4. Arnie will repost the GU WebDAV address where documents are being stored.

Quick summary of discussion:

Randy: concerns about AdmitMe holding all the accounts. Discussion around linking accounts instead, and using AdmitMe as a linking service and provider of unique identifiers. Must be able to get identifier from AdmitMe, which will be the same no matter where it comes from. AdmitMe will be global identifier purveyor. Linking can be done when accounts are created, which will make the user experience slightly better. Nate warned us that the user experience won’t be as good using account linking, but this may be a requirement for at least the next step of the project (first prototype).

Action items:

Nirmal and Nate working on describing flows and report back on the next call.

We will need two identity sources to demonstrate linked accounts.

Arnie will re-write the requirements document to include two identity stores. We probably need to determine what the nature of the existing College Board, ACT, and CommonApp user stores look like, since they aren’t likely to change their internal accounts to SAML.