The CIC (Committee for Institutional Cooperation) InCommon Silver Task Force has released a report on the first phase of its project to have all member institutions achieve Silver status by fall 2011.
The CIC includes the Big Ten schools plus the University of Chicago. The University of Washington and Virginia Tech are also collaborating in this effort.
The CIC is tackling the identity assurance profile in three phases. The report on phase one - documenting policies and procedures and standard operating practices - is available at: http://www.cic.net/Home/Projects/Technology/IdMgmt/InCommonSilver.aspx.
In addition, a working group will form this fall, consisting of other InCommon participants interested in pursuing Silver. If you are interested, email incommon-info@incommon.org.