Announcements

The Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management Roadmap and Implementation Guidance is now publicly available. The purpose of this 220-page document is to outline a common framework for Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) within the Federal Government and to provide supporting implementation guidance for program managers, leadership, and stakeholders as they plan and execute a segment architecture for ICAM management programs. The Roadmap provides courses of action, planning considerations, and technical solution information across multiple federal programs spanning the disciplines of identity, credential, and access management.

EDUCAUSE 2009 offers several Identity & Access Management-related preconference seminars and track sessions. A number of sessions will also focus on InCommon and federated identity management. Visit the Identity Management Events calendar or the InCommon website for a complete list of sessions.

InCommon is hosting an online town hall meeting on Monday, October 19, at 4 pm EDT. Participants will be able to discuss the proposed business plan that merges InCommon and the Internet2 Middleware Initiative into the InCommon LLC, as well as the interim 2010 fee structure. All InCommon participants, and other interested parties, are invited to join the webinar.

You can now view archived streams (video on demand) for several identity management and middleware-related presentations from the Fall 2009 Internet2 Member Meeting, which took place in San Antonio, TX (October 5-8, 2009).

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InCommon has released a draft business plan, which includes the 2010 interim tiered fee structure and a proposal to merge the federation and the Internet2 Middleware Initiative under the InCommon LLC. The InCommon Steering Committee and the Internet2 Board of Trustees will continue to outline the future of InCommon over the next few months, with the goal of completing the plan for the December 2009 Internet2 Board of Trustees meeting.

Additional Resources:

Jack Suess and Kevin Morooney's article, "Identity Management and Trust Services: Foundations for Cloud Computing" is available online in the new issue of EDUCAUSE Review, which focuses on cybersecurity.

Increasingly, IT organizations will move from providing IT services locally to becoming an integrator of IT services — some provided locally and others provided outside the institution. As a result, institutions must immediately begin to plan for shared services and must understand the essential role that identity management and trust services play in making integration possible.