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Jim noted that LIGO has been around for 10-11 years and so they developed IdM before federated ID was broadly used.
Benn said reported:
- There is a Kerberos realm that must be dealt with in the short term
- LIGO is an identity provider for its participants, though going forward this identity provider role can hopefully be minimized
- The invite problem applies to one subset of the LIGO user space
- LIGO also has the applicant problem/issue, i.e., some people go to the form and apply for access to resources
- The LIGO IdM workflow depends to some extent on how you came in and who approves you
- We are exploring how much of this process should be built into the COmanage software
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Ken's conversations with iPlant have gone well. There have been some internal timing issues. iPlant has a big Plant Biology meeting Jan January 16-19, 2011. Most likely a meeting with the COmanage and iPlant folks will happen after that, in late Jan. or early Feb.
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Ken reported that Jan Meijer of UNINET joined he the 6-Dec-2010 MACE call to discuss the opensource FileSender project from Assembla. This project is intended for ad hoc file sharing.
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RL "Bob": OpenID may be starting to fail as an interoperable technology, but many sites still want to get users from Google, Facebook, etc.
Use cases related to integration of OpenID and other social network identities are being collected here:
https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/OpenID/Use+Cases
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