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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.<br>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Specific goals for the External Identities Working Group include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Exploring/developing deployment models for using external
identities in a variety of risk profiles</li>
<li>Identifying and examining the technical components that are
needed to make external identities useful across a broad array
of services</li>
<li>Exploring the notion of account linking between a
campus-issued account and an external account</li>
<li>Understanding the differences between external identities and
local identities</li>
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<p>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 <a
href="https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/-gTkAg">https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/-gTkAg</a>.<br>
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<p>If you would like to participate:<br>
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<li>Subscribe to the <span class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"><a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:external-id@lists.incommon.org">external-id@lists.incommon.org</a></span>
list by sending an email to <b><a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:sympa@incommon.org">sympa@incommon.org</a></b>
with the following subject line: <b>subscribe external-id</b>
(or by visiting the <a
href="https://lists.incommon.org/sympa/info/external-id">external-id</a>
list manager directly). </li>
<li>Browse to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://spaces.internet2.edu">https://spaces.internet2.edu</a>,
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</li>
<li>Respond to the scheduling poll for every other week conference
calls by browsing to <a
href="https://doodle.com/du6xvcgr22tvbm8a">https://doodle.com/du6xvcgr22tvbm8a</a>
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.</li>
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