Formation of the External Identities Working Group

[David Walker]

The InCommon Technical Advisory Committee is forming an External
Identities Working Group to address follow-on issues that were
identified by the now-completed Social Identities Working Group.

The mission of the External Identities Working Group is to move the
community of knowledge towards the goal of making external identities
useful and sufficiently trusted in a variety of campus-based use cases.
This group is focused on the use of external identities by individuals,
rather than an enterprise using an external identity provider as their
enterprise IdP.

Specific goals for the External Identities Working Group include:

  * Exploring/developing deployment models for using external identities
    in a variety of risk profiles
  * Identifying and examining the technical components that are needed
    to make external identities useful across a broad array of services
  * Exploring the notion of account linking between a campus-issued
    account and an external account
  * Understanding the differences between external identities and local
    identities

Membership in the Working Group is open to all interested parties.
Members join the Working Group by subscribing to the mailing list,
participating in the phone calls, and otherwise actively engaging in the
work of the group.  The Working Group is expected to complete its work
by December 31, 2014. More information is available form the Working
Group's wiki space at https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/-gTkAg.

If you would like to participate:

  * Subscribe to the external-id at lists.incommon.org list by sending an
    email to *sympa at incommon.org* with the following subject line:
    *subscribe external-id* (or by visiting the external-id
    <https://lists.incommon.org/sympa/info/external-id> list manager
    directly).
  * Browse to https://spaces.internet2.edu, then login and make sure
    your electronic mail address and name are properly set in your
    profile so we can give you edit access to the wiki space, and
  * Respond to the scheduling poll for every other week conference calls
    by browsing to https://doodle.com/du6xvcgr22tvbm8a before July 28,
    2014.  The poll does not have specific entries for which alternate
    week will work for you, so please add a comment to indicate any
    scheduling restrictions you may have only on alternate weeks.


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