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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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You are invited to join the IAM Online Virtual Working Groups, with sessions on Grouper, Shibboleth, MACE-Directories, Social Identity, CoCoA, and more May 20-21, 2013

Proceedings from InCommon Advance CAMP: Identity Services Summit IV, October 2012

Internet2 Awarded $1.84 Million Grant By NIST To Build Privacy Infrastructure and To Help Individuals Preserve Their Privacy, (20-September-2012)

The Grouper team is pleased to announce the release of a series of free training videos. (30-July-2012)

IAM Online: Demystifying Privilege and Access Management - Strategies for Local, Federated and Cloud Environments
(6-December-2011)

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

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 handle groups and access management across applications and track information such as campus affiliations or roles. See an overview of Grouper. (pdf)

InCert ™: Open Source Client Certificate Installation and Device Configuration Tool Pilot Project

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.

Scalable Privacy: In September 2012, Internet2 received a two-year grant from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for the first year of a two-year project to work with the research and education community to build privacy infrastructure and tools to help individuals preserve their privacy and strengthen the nation's identity ecosystem, in support of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC).

Social and Organizational Identities Working Group: discussing the use of OAuth and other authentication methods from the various social networks, including a Social2SAML gateway service.

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

Featured Resources

Internet identity: Forward in All Directions (pdf)
Ken Klingenstein, Internet2
TERENA Networking Conference (TNC), May 2012

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]

Middleware News

September 2012
Internet2 Awarded $1.84 Million Grant By NIST To Build Privacy Infrastructure and To Help Individuals Preserve Their Privacy

September 2012
VAMP improves understanding between virtual organisations and identity federations

July 2012
The Grouper team is pleased to announce the release of a series of free training videos. (30-July-2012)

July 2012
COmanage Registry v0.6 Released
This is a Technology Preview release that is intended for demonstration purposes only. It is not yet suitable for use in a production environment.

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