Middleware Announcements

[Renee Woodten Frost <>]

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CAMP: Exploring and Supporting Federated Access
Raleigh, North Carolina * June 21-23, 2010 * www.incommon.org/camp
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The program for CAMP: Exploring and Supporting Federated Access is now available at https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/CAMPJune2010/Program.

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION ENDS MAY 10. Register now at www.incommon.org/camp. Organizations are encouraged to send IT managers, policy and security staff, and technical implementers.

SESSIONS FOR THOSE NEW TO FEDERATED ACCESS include:
* Why InCommon? Participants Talk About the Value Proposition
* Getting Started with InCommon: Identity and Service Providers
* Getting Started with InCommon: Creating Your Roadmap
* Optional Planning Sessions

SESSIONS FOR THOSE ALREADY IN PRODUCTION include:
* What's New with SAML 2?
* Panel Session: Attributes and uApprove
* Find the Silver Lining in Federated Cloud Computing
* Bronze & Silver Identity Assurance Profiles for Technical Implementers

WORKING WITH SERVICE PROVIDERS? Invite them to CAMP to learn more. The meeting is open to all higher education and their partners, including corporate organizations.

FOR THOSE NEW TO FEDERATED IDENTITY, consider attending the premeeting seminar “The Big Picture: Introduction to Federated Identity Management” to learn what it is and how it fits with your identity and access management infrastructure. Details at www.incommon.org/camp

ADVANCE CAMP: THE SECOND IDENTITY SERVICES SUMMIT will be held just following the InCommon CAMP. Information can be found on the CAMP landing page:www.incommon.org/camp

RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES for learning more about federated identity can be found on the InCommon Federation site: www.incommon.org

CAMP SPONSORS
CAMP is sponsored by the InCommon Federation in cooperation with Internet2 and EDUCAUSE.

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About InCommon (http://www.incommon.org)
InCommon provides the U.S. higher education and research community with the common framework for trustworthy shared management of access to online resources. InCommon facilitates the development of a community-based common trust fabric sufficient to enable participants to make appropriate decisions about the release of identity information and the control of access to protected online resources. InCommon is intended to enable production-level end-user access to a wide variety of protected resources.