AACRAO/EDUCAUSE/Internet2 IdM Call: Notes from 6/15/2007
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Andrea Beesing, Cornell
Nancy Krogh, Idaho/AACRAO
Todd Mildon, U Washington
RL Bob Morgan, U Washington
Karen Schultz, PSU
Renee Shuey, Penn State
Ann West, EDUCAUSE/Internet2
Next Call
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Friday July 20 at 3:00 pm Eastern
New Action Items
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- Nancy to ask staff member to follow up on transcripts exchange
- Nancy to talk to SunGard
- Nancy to duplicate use cases and case studies for the ATC Roundtable
Meeting.
- Bob to write up a use case on graduate admissions
- Bob to write up a use case on enrollment verification
Previous Action Items
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- Bob will contact Students Only about a f2f at the ATC meeting.
- David will follow up with Dan and Doug regarding the NSC meeting and
ask about their attendance at the ATC.
- Nancy will contact Michael Sessa about possibly including NCS on EA2
and his attendance at the ATC.
- Todd will write up the CollegeNet/Application Services issue and
explain the problem space
Notes
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- The group briefly discussed Bob's note about student records and
privacy. Nancy mentioned that the privacy-centric benefits of federated
identity is indeed a bit win for the registrar community and providing
mechanisms for securing and having control over what's data is shared is
appealing.
AACRAO Technology Conference
- We have three case studies so far that we can bring to the ATC.
- Incommonfederation.org - see case studies on right
- Symplicity case study is almost final
- [AI] Graduate school admissions - Bob
- [AI] Enrollment verification - Bob
- Transcript exchange - example but not sure how it might work
through the federation. [AI] Nancy will ask staff member to follow up on
transcripts exchange. Tom Black from Chicago was mentioned as a possible
source for this.
- [AI] Nancy will duplicate the case studies and ship.
- Vendor Meetings
Bob is contacting Students Only. Nancy has scheduled a call with SunGard
this week. Ann and David have followed up with NSC but nothing there
yet. Bob/Ann mentioned that David has contacted Cathy Mueller Managing
Your Future and is scheduling a call with them next week.
- Business case
Todd joined the call and we discussed the business case for vendors and
campuses for federated identity:
Privacy - Sharing information between universities is different than
sharing it between higher ed and fed gov or corporate organizations.
Federated Identity can enable authentication and authorization of off
campus resources while preserving privacy.
Collaboration - More and more people are involved in inter-institutional
collaboration and need to securely share resources.
Vendors - Their solutions need to integrate with on campus
infrastructures and, as our community expands beyond our institutional
boundaries, they must also work across these blurred perimeters. Todd
mentioned that UW has moved away from some vendors in part because of
their lack of integration.
Should we approach vendors about collaborating on a pilot or just work
on educating them? We could pick a simple pilot, such as a wiki. This is
broadly useful, but may not capture the imagination of the registrar
community.
Administrivia
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The group decided on a monthly call on the third Friday of every month.
Our next call is Friday July 20 at 3:00 pm Eastern time.