Working Group Will Focus on Use of External Identities
The InCommon Technical Advisory Committee is forming an External Identities Working Group to address follow-on issues that were identified by the now-completed Social Identities Working Group.
The mission of the External Identities Working Group is to move the community of knowledge towards the goal of making external identities useful and sufficiently trusted in a variety of campus-based use cases. This group is focused on the use of external identities by individuals, rather than an enterprise using an external identity provider as their enterprise IdP.
Specific goals for the External Identities Working Group include:
- Exploring/developing deployment models for using external identities in a variety of risk profiles
- Identifying and examining the technical components that are needed to make external identities useful across a broad array of services
- Exploring the notion of account linking between a campus-issued account and an external account
- Understanding the differences between external identities and local identities
Membership in the Working Group is open to all interested parties. Members join the Working Group by subscribing to the mailing list, participating in the phone calls, and otherwise actively engaging in the work of the group. The Working Group is expected to complete its work by December 31, 2014. More information is available form the Working Group's wiki space at https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/x/-gTkAg.
If you would like to participate:
- Subscribe to the working group email list by sending an email to sympa@incommon.org with the following subject line: subscribe external-id (or by visiting the external-id list manager directly at lists.incommon.org).
- Browse to https://spaces.at.internet2.edu, then login and make sure your electronic mail address and name are properly set in your profile so we can give you edit access to the wiki space