“AdmitMe” pilot project conference call, 08/26/2011
Attendees:
Arnie Miles Georgetown University
Tim McGraw Common App
Michael Morris ACT
Ann West Internet2
Jim Leyous Penn State
Brendan Bellina USC
Tuan An Do
Doug Falk
Randy Strothers College Board
Susan McCrackin
Michael Sessa PESC
Agenda:
Might be useful to setup a prototype of what we’ve been talking about to demonstrate and work out issues people may still have.
Proposal to start Prototype project. It seems to make sense to build a prototype of what we’re doing so we can demonstrate the potentials of this project and iterate through requirements.
Tim is in favor. Annual development process, outsource technology projects. Development can’t start until December or January. Ann: possibly not a huge development process. Needs to look realistic. Tim: this increases chances the team would do it. Budgeting is on yearly basis. He feels free it can be a priority, but can’t promise developer’s time. Tim can provide the html they use
Michael: The pages wouldn’t have to reside on a web server. The idea is to a portal that would route everyone to all the vendors and each individual. Will check on some developer cycles to work on this. Will commit to proposing it and trying to get a commitment from the organization.
Randy: same situation.
Perhaps batch process to update credentials rather then a portal. Perhaps both? Both ACT and College Board see batch processing as the preferred method for updating credentials. For prototype, mock-up a roster for simulation purposes.
Ann: would it be helpful to the vendors to get assistance from InCommon people setting up the service providers? Partner with vendor staff?
Jim Leyous volunteers Chris from Penn State to work with College Board and ACT. Randy agrees that having InCommon folks sitting with vendor tech folks would help.
InCommon has a number of trainers available to help with this. Over phone, webinar, ½ day session.
Vendor Action Item: Find a person in each organization to participate in training and development session. Tim expects that he’ll participate in the training.
How long before training can happen? Ann will send out to list a link to training links for immediate access. Get Nate involved after within two weeks. Also possible to get one-on-one time for each vendor’s specific SP’s.
Just involve the group of us. Closely held, private, just for us to use for our purposes.
Steps:
Identity Store (Georgetown)
IdP (Georgetown)
Portal to populate and update Identity Store (Georgetown)
Dummy Redirects from vendors
Dummy Service Providers from vendors
University Admissions page Penn State
First step: identify what data should be held in the AdmitMe data store.
USC: First name, last name, date of birth, optionally SSN.
Penn State: day and date but not year for DOB. Home address, town, state, country. Fuzzy matching on last names and first names.
Common App: “Permanent” address and phone numbers.
Requirements for Project (not Prototype):
Vendors (College Board and ACT, all) must be able to maintain branding.
Vendors must not have to maintain user accounts.
A 3rd party central authority (AdmitMe) must be established to hold
credentials of high school students transitioning into higher education,
including a unique student identifier.
This unique student identifier must be available to vendors, schools,
and other potential consumers.
Students must be able to initially self-register to this 3rd party
authority via vendor portals.
The system must allow exam proctors to submit the results of photo ID
checks and other vendor activities that validate student identities to
improve the levels of assurance of the student credentials.
These higher LOA credentials must be accessible to increase the quality
of vendor products.
The 3rd party identity store must hold what is necessary to identify
individual individuals.
Vendor data stores must continue to be able to maintain private details
relevant to their needs.
Output matching must be possible based upon unique identifier stored at
3rd party.
There must be policies that address the appropriate management of
privacy and defines who sets these policies and monitors compliance with
these policies.
There must be some level of control at the vendors to provide customer support. Define responsibilities. Must define who is responsible for what. (add more as we continue)
Action Items:
- Ann: training and education
- Vendors: check to see if they can commit resources
- Identify who is going to participate in training.
- Penn State and USC to send Arnie registration data
- Talk to Michael Gettes about identities
- Georgetown getting resources set up for identity store and IdP
- Penn State will mock up admissions page using AdmitMe
- Arnie will repost the GU WebDAV address where documents are being stored