Middleware Announcements

[Renee Frost <>]

Open Source Group Management Toolkit Now Available

The first production version of the Grouper Group Management Toolkit was
released July 21 and will be announced via press release later this week.
This suite of software enables automated and manual mechanisms for
assigning users to groups based on their individual campus affiliations,
status, or other relevant roles.

The 1.0 version supports:

* basic group management by distributed authorities
* subgroups
* composite groups (groups whose membership is determined by the union,
   intersection, or relative complement of two other groups)
* custom group types and custom attributes
* traceback of indirect membership
* delegation

Coupled with the Signet Privilege Management System, the combined suite
provides research and academic institutions the critical software and
tools needed to support enhanced institution-wide role- and
permission-based authorization for access to protected resources. The
tools can also support the management of virtual organizations and aid
the grid computing community by giving project teams spread around the
world the ability to manage access to resources that are geographically
dispersed.

For more information on Grouper, refer to <http://grouper.internet2.edu>.
For more information on Signet, refer to <http://signet.internet2.edu>.

Development of Grouper was supported with funding from the University of
Chicago and the University of Bristol and with additional support from
Internet2, the NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI) and the Joint Information
Systems Committee (JISC).




Renée Woodten Frost
Associate Director, Middleware and Security
Internet2
1000 Oakbrook Drive, Suite 300
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
phone:  734-913-4293    fax:  734-913-4255