A Roadmap for Using NSF Cyberinfrastructure
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with InCommon
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Project Documents
The following documents are drafts made available for comment. They should not be cited.
There are two versions of the document: a full version and an abbreviated version. The former is a superset of the latter, which omits sections B and C to focus on providing an overview for campus and project leadership.
Full version: (MS-Word)(PDF)
Abbreviated version: (MS-Word)(PDF)
For details on creating the abbreviated version, see Making Abbreviated Document.
Project Summary
InCommon, with a membership base of over 180 higher educational institutions representing over 5 million end users is the clear choice for identity federation for the U.S higher educational community. This opinion was stated last February by the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC) in conjunction with the EDUCAUSE Campus Cyberinfrastructure working group, and was recently echoed by the NSF ACCI Campus Bridging Task Force. Recent advances by the NSF TeraGrid project have demonstrated InCommon provides a basis for identity federation not only between higher educational institutions, but also between those institutions and NSF cyberinfrastructure.
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William Barnett, Von Welch, Alan Walsh, Craig A. Stewart
The
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"InCommon Roadmap for NSF CyberInfrastructure"
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provides guidance for NSF cyberinfrastructure projects, researchers and their representative campuses on the successful adoption and use of InCommon to advance NSF science and engineering research.
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The Roadmap provides concrete guidance to campuses and cyberinfrastructure projects for utilizing InCommon to allow research to effectively take advantage of federated identity as a foundation for a national cyberinfrastructure.
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The Roadmap is available through Indiana University ScholarWORKS:
InCommon along with an assembled collection of experts serving as a editorial board have agreed to serve as a review body for our Roadmap. Our metric of success is the approval of the document by the ACCI Campus Bridging Task Force and subsequent distribution with their endorsement.
Intellectual Merit: Authoring such a roadmap involves clearly documenting how to overcome technical, policy and social challenges for both NSF CI and campuses. This expertise is broader than any one individual. Our proposal team brings together a combination of NSF cyberinfrastructure experts and campus identity management experts uniquely qualified to address these challenges on both sides of the identity federation bridge between campuses and NSF cyberinfrastructure.
Broader Impact: Our proposed Roadmap would be a unique and valuable contribution to the NSF and InCommon communities. It will serve to help coalesce community consensus in InCommon and federated identity, motivating greater adoption of InCommon and increase its use by campuses, cyberinfrastructure projects and their user communities. This in turn will lead to a solid foundation for NSF's vision of a Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering.
Principal Investigator
William Barnett
Indiana University
Senior Manager, Life Sciences, Research Technologies
Associate Director, Pervasive Technology Institute
Director, IT Advanced Core, IU School of Medicine
Director, Information Architectures, Indiana CTSI
Other Principals
Craig Stewart, Indiana University
Alan Walsh, Indiana University
Von Welch, Independent Consultant
Editorial Board
James Basney, NCSA
Michael Beyerlein, Purdue University
Ken Klingenstein, Internet2
Michael McLennan, Purdue University
Acknowledgment of NSF Support
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under OCI Grant No. OCI-1040777. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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