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The Internet2 Middleware Initiative focuses on developing interoperable identity and access management infrastructures for research and higher education. The initiative's work includes developing tools, roadmaps, software, practices, standards, and education. For more information about Internet2 Middleware Initiative, see the Background page.

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IAM Online: Multi-Factor Authentication
Wed. 6-December-2011 3:00 EST (UTC-5)

Results of the MACE-Dir(ectories) Working Group Guest Identities Survey (September 2011)

Grouper Survey Summary (pdf) (August 2011)

Internet2 Middleware Initiative awarded NSF grant to enhance science and research collaboration (25-October-2010)

Proceedings from InCommon CAMP: Hot Topics in Identity and Federated Identity Management, June 2011

Proceedings from InCommon Advance CAMP: Identity Services Summit III, May 2011

Archives for past CAMP, Advance CAMP, Day CAMP meetings

Identity Management for the LIGO Project, April 28, 2010 (pdf 11 MB)
Scott Koranda, LIGO and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Key projects include:

MACE (Middleware Architecture Committee for Education) administers a Uniform Resource Name (URN) namespace, supporting the assignment of unique, global, persistent names to resources of various kinds by MACE and its delegates. MACE also administers an Object Identifier (OID) arc for identifying resources of various kinds for Internet2/MACE projects and working groups.

Shibboleth® Federated Single Sign-On Software: open-source web single sign-on and federating software. See an overview of Shibboleth. (pdf)

Grouper™: software used to manage group memberships across applications and track information such as campus affiliations or roles. See an overview of Grouper. (pdf)

COmanage: Collaborative Organization Management: a software platform that eases distributed authentication and access management for a group of collaborative applications. See an overview of COmanage. (pdf)

MACE-Dir(ectories) Working Group and eduPerson and Related Schema: the MACE-Dir working group looks at how to describe common identity information for campus and federated relationships. MACE-DIR's many projects include the eduPerson, eduCourse, and eduOrg directory schema.

MACE-paccman (Privilege and Access Management) Working Group: venue for tackling issues related to providing efficient and effective means for organizations and individuals to control access to computer-based resources, to ensure that resources are used in ways that comply with policy or otherwise meet organizational and individual goals.

NSF SDCI (Software Development for CyberInfrastructure) "Bedrock" Award

Featured Resources

Killer Attributes (and the apps that love them) (pdf)
Cloud Identity Summit, July 2011

Tao of Attributes Workshop (Presentations & Webcast archive)
September 2009

Identity Management and Trust Services: Foundations for Cloud Computing
Kevin Morooney (The Pennsylvania State Univ.) and Jack Suess (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Educause Review, September/October 2009

PennGroups - Central Authorization at Penn (pdf)
Bill Kasenchar and Chris Hyzer, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Educause MidAtlantic Regional Conference, 7-Jan-2009

Internet Scale Identity, Collaboration and Research & Education,
Ken Klingenstein (Internet2) and RL "Bob" Morgan (Univ. of Washington) [Video]