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- Are there plans for InCommon to include K12? In the short term, Yes. NC State Federation pilot will be sponsoring a couple of K12 districts into the InCommon federation. For more information about the longer term, see the Futures discussion below.
- What happens when we need to send an attribute that isn't defined by InCommon? One can certainly define/agree upon additional attributes among partners and pass those as well among the orgs in your consortium. It's not a technical issue; it's a governance issue and defining what you need on top of InCommon to do your work together. That's basically the model of the UC Trust federation.
Kevin Morooney, CIO of Penn State and Vice Chair of InCommon Steering Committee discussed the InCommon Futures Group which is , a newly formed committee looking at InCommon future membership, funding and organization models. InCommon is growing relatively rapidly and expanding services such as rolling out new trust levels. Longer term, who should it serve and how, and what's it role in the US and internationally? The Futures Group must develop effective and scalable mechanisms to get feedback from broad stakeholders, such as this group. Where does InCommon belong? It's an Internet2 operation, but longer term, should it stay with this organization? Kevin then charged asked this group with to collectively providing provide feedback to the Futures discussion.
RI: They are dealing with no child left behind and related testing, and there are many K12 districts are using SIS to track the results. We are also using networked-based services to communicate with parents and develping the ability to have student portfolios which must be access years after graduation. We're experiencing growing identity related problems that span cradle to grave.
Morooney: How does InC-Future engage K12? Maybe through this or the StateNets group?
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