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Enhancing Interoperable Identity Management: A Five-Year NMI-EDIT Outreach Overview

This document summarizes the first five years of the National Middleware Initiative's (NMI) collaboration with the NMI-EDIT consortium to develop interoperable identity and access management infrastructure. It highlights outreach activities, outcomes, and resources aimed at helping campuses deploy effective identity management systems. The initiative engaged a diverse audience, offering workshops, case studies, and production of practices to promote the use of identity management solutions. Key accomplishments include workshops, awareness presentations, and support for collaborations among various institutions.

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Enhancing Interoperable Identity Management: A Five-Year NMI-EDIT Outreach Overview

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  1. NMI-EDIT Outreach:The first five years

  2. Topics for Today • NMI-EDIT background • Activities • Outcomes • Resources

  3. Background • National Science Foundation’s Middleware Initiative (NMI) • Funded NMI-EDIT to build interoperable identity and access management infrastructure • NMI – Enterprise Desktop Integration Technologies (EDIT) Consortium • Internet2 content and development lead • EDUCAUSE outreach and education lead

  4. Strategic Direction • Overall technical direction set by MACE • Middleware Architecture Committee for Education (MACE) • Campus IT architects and representatives from Grids, national, and international communities

  5. Development: Tools, Practices • Enterprise Directories • eduPerson schema, practice papers, schema checking service, Roadmap • Authentication • WebISOs • Roadmap • Authorization • Signet Privilege Management System • Grouper Group Toolkit • Federated IdM • Shibboleth

  6. Outreach Goals Prime Directives: • Help campuses deploy interoperable identity and access management infrastructures to achieve their goals • Do no harm (…no Star Fleet personnel may interfere with the healthy development of alien life and culture.) Methods Used • Listen • Interpret (Repeat)

  7. Listen and… • Primary Audience – management, project management, technical staff • Special Categories • Small Schools • State Systems • Secondary Audience – campus stakeholders • Registrars • Business Officers • (and Librarians and Academic Medical Centers)

  8. The Numbers • 46 workshops • 15 CAMPS and 31 other • 2,770 total attendance • 1,640 distinct participants • 610 institutions/organizations • 517 US • 93 International • 700 CDs • 60+ awareness presentations • Hundreds of campus collaborators • 1 (2?) roadmaps • English and Portuguese • 1+ website • 17 case studies • 6 articles in AACRAO, NACUBO, and EDUCAUSE publications • 1 mini-grant program…

  9. Extending the Reach • Outreach/education scaling experiment • State Higher-ed Systems and Network Providers • Modest funding • Leverage existing education/outreach channels to spread the word about IdM and NMI-EDIT Consortium • Four awards • University of Alaska System • University of Texas System • California State University System • Great Plains Network Consortium

  10. ETR: They Played Together Well • Jumpstarted… • Texas higher-ed federation • Federated wireless access, benefits and training • Great Plains research collaboration • Bioinformatics data and applications • Sourced IdM for resource-strapped schools • Medical publications/applications shared among Houston medical centers • Other implementations beyond ETR participants

  11. ETR: They Played Together Well • Benefited 332,000 faculty, staff, and students • Touched 43 campuses, health centers, and state network providers • Funded outreach to MSI schools in Alaska, CA, TX and Great Plains • Supported three master’s theses and article in Scalable Computing

  12. Resources • www.nmi-edit.org • www.educause.edu/idm • middleware.internet2.edu • Ann West • awest at educause.edu • awest at internet2.edu

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