InCommon Student: Notes from 10/19
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Andrea Beesing, Cornell
Tom Black, Stanford
Nancy Krogh, Idaho
Bob Morgan, Washington
Karen Hanson, Wisconsin
Keith Hazelton, Wisconsin
Renee Shuey, Penn State
Jerry Sullivan, AACRAO
Ann West, EDUCAUSE/Internet2
Action Items
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- All - Identify companies that have an interest in sponsoring the
AACRAO IdM workshop to help defray the cost.
- Jerry and Ann will assemble the planning/program committee list.
Next Call
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November 16 at 3:00 pm Eastern
877-944-2300
99208#
Notes
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Nancy gave an update on the PESC EA2 meeting in Montreal:
- Nicole Harris from JISC presented on the UK Access Management
Federation for their R&E Community.
- Even though there is a lack of movement in the federal federation
initiatives, the Department of Ed was planning to release federated
applications. Bob commented that the InCommon Federation has been
working directly with NIH to establish federated access to NIH
applications. (Federal agencies are now allowed to join InCommon
directly as opposed to being required to join the E-Authentication
Federation which was then working on peering with InCommon.) This change
in requirements may be increasing the Department of Education's interest
in federated applications, since they now have a precedent to follow for
offering services to higher ed.
- Liberty Alliance will be releasing a document outlining their proposed
certification support for trust and accompanying model for accrediting
federations and their members. The PESC EA2 committee was interested in
reviewing this.
Educause Annual Meeting
- Joanne Berg will be presenting the Bedtime story at the Registrars
Constituent Group Meeting at the Educause Annual Meeting. We discussed
approaching the Data Administration constituency group as well; however
the two meetings are scheduled at the same time. We decided the DA group
was out of scope for now.
AACRAO Identity Management Workshop
- Ann West and Jerry Sullivan gave an overview of the AACRAO IdM
Workshop idea. Educause has been working on behalf of the NMI-EDIT
Consortium (Educause/Internet2) with AACRAO members for a number of
years on IdM. The workshop idea came out of an Educause IdM Summit where
individuals from across the academy were invited to discuss IdM, the
value of it, and next steps for the higher-ed community. One action item
included talking to the organizations that support the administrative
staff and functions about holding a combined administrative/IT IdM
workshop. AACRAO was at the top on the list, because of the organization
and member interest and the critical role registrars play in governance,
data stewardship, and service offerings.
- The group then discussed possible scheduling and venues for the
meeting, as well as goals for the meeting:
-- The primary goal is to bring together Registrars and IT together to
discuss drivers and initial common practices. A small group will remain
afterward the larger meeting ends to begin assembling the content for an
AACRAO white paper on IdM.
-- Venue could be Washington DC or joined with the AACRAO Technology
Conference July 10-12 in Baltimore. (The ATC seemed more viable. Small
Working group would stay afterwards during the ATC meeting to do the
drafting.) The DC area (and Baltimore would fit) would allow us to
invite presenters from the Federal Government.
-- Schedule - Spring or summer 2008
-- AACRAO will manage the logistics. Total length of larger and drafting
meeting might be 1.5 days.
-- Audience - We should make sure we engage smaller schools and
represent institutions from across the membership to get broad
understanding. In the higher-ed space there may be only a few schools
ready to have the conversation.
-- Marketing - How do we reach people who can contribute, but don't
understand the language? The program committee will need to work on
framing IdM in the context of terms, business processes, and challenges
that resonant with registrars. The Student Services Bedtime Story was a
nice way to communicate the issues and get folks thinking about it.
-- Scope - How much of IdM do we include on the program? Should we talk
about all the parts or just limit it to a piece such as governance,
planning, and getting something going with IT? Again, this is a program
committee issue. We don't want this meeting to discuss the technical
challenges. [AI] Need to assemble a planning/program committee to
decide length, content, and marketing ASAP. Jerry and Ann will together
on the list.
-- Vendor Participation - We discussed including vendors, but we don't
have enough time in the program itself (we think) to do so. Maybe we can
have a separate area for this? Or maybe we just ask them to sponsor to
help with the costs? Tom mentioned that one of his partnering vendors
might be interested inhelping to fund the meeting. [AI] Identify companies
that have aninterest to see if they would sponsor the workshop to reduce the cost.