Resources

Burton Group Presentation at Seminars in Academic Computing, 2004 (.ppt, 1.5Mb)

Enterprise Directory Implementation Roadmap: A structured collection of resources and guidelines to assist campuses in developing both the technology and policy aspects of an enterprise directory.

Extending the Reach Program: A partnership between NMI-EDIT and various state higher education systems to provide middleware education and deployment assistance. The IdMC is a collaboration between CSU-Stanislaus and Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo.

Grouper: an open source toolkit for managing groups. Grouper is designed to function as the core element of a common infrastructure for managing group information across integrated applications and repositories

Identity Management and e-business (.pdf, 709K)

NMI-EDIT Consortium: The primary goal is to improve the productivity of the research and education community through development, testing, and dissemination of architectures, software, and practices in the areas of identity and access management.

Selected list of links on various Middleware topics (.doc, 57K)

Shibboleth: When you want, a powerful, scalable, and easy-to-use solution for to sharing secured online services or access restricted digital content. It leverages campus identity and access management infrastructures to authenticate individuals and then sends information about them to the resource site, enabling the resource provider to make an informed authorization decision.

Signet: A privilege management service that seeks to provide a standard user interface for privilege administrators; a consistent, simplified policy definition, via roles and integration with core campus organizational data; improved visibility, understandability, and auditability of privilege information; and a standard interfaces to other infrastructure services and to application systems to support integration.

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Authentication/Authorization Coordinating Team: One approach to developing a comprehensive authentication and authorization infrastructure.