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Aug.
2021
By David St. Pierre Bantz, University of Alaska, InCommon Community Trust & Assurance Board InCommon’s Baseline Expectations enhance your productivity and effectiveness by increasing trust and interoperability among InCommon federation participants. When you can trust that participants have accurate and complete metadata describing their service or identity provider, that they…
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Apr.
2021
April 15, 2021 Show your participation – InCommon has a nice badge logo for use by current participants. Take a look and download your very own. New InCommon Participants As of April 15, 2021, InCommon has 1,028 participants. Here are the new participants since the March newsletter: Higher EducationDefense…
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Apr.
2021
April 12, 2021 In just one month about one-quarter of InCommon organizations have already met the second set of the InCommon Federation Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation. These requirements will improve both trust and interoperability by ensuring that all organizations meet certain standards. As of April 9, 23%…
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Mar.
2021
March 17, 2021 This week, InCommon operations began sending notices to Federation participants of the need to meet the new Baseline Expectation for Trust in Federation. Organizations received notices if they have identity providers and/or service providers that do not meet one or more of the expectations. Most organizations received…
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Mar.
2021
March 17, 2021 New InCommon Participants As of March 17, 2021, InCommon has 1,025 participants. Here are the new participants since the February newsletter: Higher EducationCalifornia Institute of the ArtsColumbus College of Art and DesignUniversity System of New Hampshire, Office of the Chancellor Sponsored PartnerMerit Network, Inc. InCommon Federation The…
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Mar.
2021
March 5, 2021 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced new identity management requirements that could affect access for faculty, researchers, and scientists. As of September 15, 2021, NIH will require multi-factor authentication and the release of attributes that are part of the REFEDS Research & Scholarship (R&S) bundle.
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Feb.
2021
February 18, 2021 The move to adoption of the second set of Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation (BE2) is underway. The new expectations include three technical requirements aimed at improving security and the user experience that all InCommon Federation participants must meet during 2021: Each Identity Provider and…
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Feb.
2021
February 17, 2021 The National Institutes of Health is moving to require multi-factor authentication (MFA) or two-factor authentication (2FA) for all or most of its services (for our purposes, we’ll lump those together and use MFA). This is significant for any campus or research organization with faculty, researchers, or scientists…
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Dec.
2020
December 9, 2020 What’s next for round two of Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation, now that the community has vetted the changes and the InCommon Steering Committee has given its approval? In the spirit of the season, we’re makin’ a list and checkin’ it twice! InCommon operations will…
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Dec.
2020
December 4, 2020 The InCommon Identity Provider as a Service Working Group has submitted its final report, which is now open for comment as part of the consultation process. You can visit the consultation wiki page to review and comment on the report through January 24, 2021. The…
