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- Baseline requirement for running an IdP (Identity Provider)
- Underlying IAM infrastructure (accounts & minimal set of attributes)
- Value proposition for districts (not much at the district level - need examples)
- Reduced cost through shared applications
- Reduced/Single Sign-On to "?" (some cloud services?)
- District or State "Shared Applications" - SPs (value proposition)
- Availability of client machines for all students (1:1)?
- BYOD/T (Bring Your Own Device/Technology)
- Currently not a "given"
- Next few years may see a higher percentage of K-12 students with client devices
- Moving from a district-focused effort to a state-wide or national effort would improve the chances for success (true?)
Possible K-12 Federation Options
- District or State-Level IdPs
- How would (could) a state-wide IdP work?
- Much more granular OU than in Higher Education
- Scoping of ePPN (eduPerson Principle Name)
- How does this tie in with an IIS and the national SLC effort?
- Should there be follow up (outreach) with the Shibboleth and InCommon folks?
- How would (could) a state-wide IdP work?
- Are there enough differences to warrant a separate K-12 Federation?
- K-12 applications vs. Higher Education applications
- Attributes and Attribute Release Policies (ARPs)
- Regulations (state and federal) and Security (K-12 students are minors)
- Shared Infrastructure - National K-12 Federation?
- Inter-federation with InCommon?
- Is this an InCommon Problem/Concern?
- Pricing for K-12
- Inter-federation vs. a single federation
- K-12 Issues (see above)
- Dilution of SP pool? (or "too much" for vendors to work with multiple federations)
- Need to participate in multiple federations and inter-federate, OR participate in a single federation and have subsets of metadata (K-12, HE, etc.)?
K-12 Federation Challenges
- K-12 Districts don't have FIM "high" on their lists of projects (maybe top 10)
- Major needs/projects are likely to be "district-focused"
- Districts won't benefit as much from FIM on their own
- The bigger benefits are realized when coordinated at the State level (or higher)
- Shared learning infrastructure
- Consortium buying
- State-wide licensing of multi-tenant Cloud Services
- State-specific (required) "federated" applications/services
- The effort to make progress on FIM is frequently too great for a single district to manage (true?)
- The coordination, leadership and funding likely needs to be done at a state level
- Partnership of RENs/Regionals and State Departments of Education
- CoSN Leadership
- Others?
Terminology
See Glossary
Use Cases
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