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[Tom Barton <>]

You may find this report interesting. -Tom

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• From: Niels van Dijk <>
• To: TF-EMC2 <>
• Cc:
• Subject: [tf-emc2] Service spanning Group management
• Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:09:36 +0100
• Organization: SURFnet
• Original-recipient: rfc822;tf-emc2-list

Hello list,

Please find below a link to our report on Service spanning
Group management. The investigation describes ways of implementing such
a feature, evaluates 10 products and makes an inventory of SURFnets
services in regard to group management requirements.

http://www.surfnet.nl/Documents/indi-2008-012-019.pdf

Should you have questions or comments, please feel free to share these.

Regards,
Niels van Dijk

Snap from the executive summary:

> SURFnet seeks to raise the level of integration between the various
> collaboration services that
> it delivers to its community. The possibility of applying group management
> features across the
> various services is regarded as a requirement to achieve this goal.
>
> A short investigation has been made of solutions for service spanning group
> management. i.e.
> user groups that can be managed centrally and can be used in different web
> based
> applications. Also SURFnet service managers were interviewed about group
> management in
> order to discover the utility of such groups for their service.
>
> The general conclusion is that the services SURFgroepen en SURFmedia will
> immediately
> benefit from centrally managed user groups, but the rest is happy the way
> they are. If a
> central group manager would be implemented, some service managers could
> think of possible
> applications but they would all be related to role-based authorization
> based on groupmembership.
>
> The search for a product that most likely will fulfill the needs for
> SURFnet is
> COManage/Grouper. Grouper offers the best interoperability and developer
> support of all
> evaluated products.




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