cifer (community identity framework for education and research) overview for prospective...

CIFER(Community Identity Framework for Education and

Research)

Overview for Prospective Contributors

ciferproject.org

Bill YockDirector, Enterprise Information ServicesUniversity of Washington206.685.7535byock@uw.edu

Chair of Kuali Rice Board of Directors

Identity and Access Mgmt Complexities

US higher education spends more than $500m annually on

identity and access management (IAM).

>5% of all HE IT expenditures, ~$25/student/year sector-wide.

(sources: Gartner/Forrester, 2010-2011)

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The Problems

ASTRA – Access MgmtPersonReg – Identity

The UW Knows these problems all too well!

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The Solution!•Coordination across communities!•Comprehensive, yet modular, components!•Higher Education Focused!

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Open API’s and development tools

for flexible implementations.

Event driven, rule based and SOA

architectures for robust Integration!

Robust and extensive set of services!

Common API’s for all components!

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Large library of contributions and documentation to connect, transform

and provision systems!

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Designed for federation, social and cloud based

services!

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New central console for administration

and configuration of all components.

Open API’s and development tools

for flexible implementations.

Open API’s and development tools for flexibility and

supportability.

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CIFER Governance Structure

ExecutiveTrustees

ExistingProject

Caretakers

Project Manager / Coordination Committee

WorkstreamCommittees

Stakeholder Council

LEGEND:= CIFER Financial / Strategic= CIFER Technical / Coordination= Existing Project Governance

Representation based on contribution levels, elect

Executive Trustees

Board of directors, allocate resources , elect PM and Coordination Committee

Overall CIFER project planning and coordination

Workstream specific planning, coordinate with

existing project governance

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CIFER - 3 Contribution LevelsParticipants

$1/FTE Student/Yr for 2 yrs$50K Total Cap

Teaching Centric Institutions, including Liberal Arts and Community Colleges

Supporters

$2/FTE Student/Yr for 2 yrs$100K Total Cap

Leaders

$5/FTE Student/Yr for 2 yrs$250K Total Cap

Doctoral class institutions, significant graduate and professional but limited

scope research agendas

Research institutions and existing consortia organizations of Internet2,

Jasig and Kuali

Commercial affiliates, non-profit higher-ed service providers, learned societies, trust federations are all expected and strongly

encouraged to contribute!9

(Contribution may be cash or equivalent FTE in-kind resource)

CIFER Project Timeline and Costs

Estimate $8M total cost over 2 Years ($4M per year) to meet all new development, QA and Integration objectives

Estimate $500K - $750K per year after to sustain patch releases and incremental improvements

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How to Participate?

Visit the CIFER web site: www.ciferproject.org and read the prospectus

Sign a Letter of Intent

Subscribe to our mailing list: community@ciferproject.org

Tell all your friends!

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CIFER(Community Identity Framework for Education and

Research)

Questions?

Contact:Bill Yock206.685.7535byock@uw.edu