Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Keith Hazelton <>]

The CIFER Provisioning and Integration team is very interested in SCIM-based 
approaches.  We'll be doing some testing and will stay involved in 
discussions about support for SCIM in Grouper.

       --Keith
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On 2013-03-18, at 11:47 , David Langenberg wrote:

> Hi Neils,
> 
> Right now we're in the exploratory phase for what SCIM would look like 
> within Grouper.  Would we, for instance replace the SPML in the PSP with 
> SCIM or just make a module that would do basically SPML -> SCIM -> 
> downstream consumer.  
> 
> This is being presently tracked at 
> https://bugs.internet2.edu/jira/browse/GRP-885
> 
> As we have not established a clear goal for SCIM we do not yet have any 
> timeline around implementation.
> 
> Dave
> 
> --
> David Langenberg
> Identity & Access Management
> The University of Chicago
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 18, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Niels van Dijk 
> <>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I was wondering if Grouper roadmap has SCIM on it.
>> 
>> We have a use case where we are using SCIM to provision group info to a
>> cloud provisioning broker who then provisions various other clouds
>> services via none-standard APIs. Until now this was mostly test cases
>> (SCIM functionality outside of Grouper), now we would like to look at
>> doing this for 'real'.
>> As our groups already live in Grouper, and Grouper already has
>> capabilities e.g. to determine the difference between group memberships
>> between date A and date B, this seems like a good fit, I think.
>> 
>> I note that last years I2 Spring Meeting had some discussions [1] and in
>> 2011 a MACE-Dir discussion [2] addressed a lot of issues that by now
>> have been solved I think. Neither however have a clear direction for
>> SCIM in regards to Grouper.
>> 
>> If it is on the roadmap, are there any timeliness? If not, what ways
>> would there be to accelerate this? We have coding capabilities, but
>> coding an entire new API out of the blue is probably not a good idea ;)
>> 
>> Any thoughts?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Niels
>> 
>> 
>> [1]
>> https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Grouper+Face+to+Face+Meeting+23-Apr-2012
>> [2] 
>> http://middleware.internet2.edu/dir/minutes/MACE-Dir-15-August-2011.html
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