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This note is the shorter version. For more of the story go to https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/x/HpeKAQ
There are several motivations that led to these discussions: (1) new requirements on campus IAM systems, including new populations, cloud integration, assurance, compliance, privacy, federation, etc.; (2) dissatisfaction of many campuses with current commercial IAM products; (3) the fact that popular open-source IAM software does not form a coherent IAM suite; (4) new requirements for Kuali Rice, from the major Kuali applications and other sources, motivating more "enterprise" capabilities for the Kuali Identity Management (KIM) component of Rice. Regular readers of the EDUCAUSE IdM list will be familiar with many of these drivers.
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