An InCommon Roadmap for NSF Cyberinfrastructure

NSF网络基础设施的不常见路线图PI摘要：William Barnett不常见项目描述了生成指导文档的活动，供NSF网络基础设施(CI)项目、其研究人员、用户和校园政策制定者在采用和使用组成美国校园身份联盟的技术和政策时使用，这些技术和政策称为不常见项目。在现有不常见文档的基础上，本路线图文档将重点关注加入和参与不常见联盟的动机和政策以及技术。该文件还将包括对NSF的建议。该文件将在一个由技术和政策专家组成的编辑委员会主持下编写，最后定稿将由ACCI校园衔接工作队核准。路线图文档的成功衡量标准涉及成员数量的增加和联合身份的使用。因此，这些衡量标准从数量上解决了更广泛影响的标准。该提案指出，智力优势在于如何克服政策、技术和社会方面的挑战，产生清晰而简洁的指导。实际上，这份文件的绝大多数工作将由一名专家来完成。GridShib的创建者，以及编委会确定的成员，都非常有资格制作一份完善的路线图。采用和使用这一文件的一个关键驱动因素将是使用适当定位为第一推力领域的非常情况的动机。该提案包括一个详细的时间表，并适当地界定了三个主要领域。使用经过ACCI园区桥接特别工作组批准的优秀编辑委员会的过程可确保发布的路线图在技术上是合理的，并且完全响应以CI为中心的项目的需求和校园CI的能力。如果成功，本文件将成为更大范围采用和使用非常联盟定义的联合身份的基石，不常见联盟是当今大学校园中存在的主要信任结构，同时为NSF提供社区参考，以确定实现共享CI目标的路径。

An InCommon Roadmap for NSF CyberinfrastructureAbstractPI: William BarnettThe InCommon project describes activities to produce a guidance document for use by NSF Cyberinfrastructure (CI) projects, their researchers, their users, and campus policy makers, in adopting and using the technologies and policies that make up the identity federation among US campuses called InCommon. Working off existing InCommon documentation, this Roadmap document will focus as much on the motivations and policies as the technologies for joining and participating in the InCommon federation. The document will include advice to NSF as well. The document will be produced under the auspices of an editorial board of technical and policy experts with approval of a final version to be approved by the ACCI Campus Bridging Task Force. Metrics of success for the Roadmap document relate to increased membership and use of federated identity. These metrics therefore address quantitatively the criterion of Broader Impact. Intellectual merit is noted by the proposal as how to overcome the policy, technical, and social challenges in producing clear and concise guidance.In reality, a single expert will be doing the vast majority of work on this document. The creator of GridShib, along with the identified members of the editorial board, are highly qualified to produce a sound Roadmap. A key driver for adoption and use of this document will be in the motivations for use of InCommon, properly situated as the first thrust area. The proposal includes a detailed timeline and defines the three thrust areas appropriately. The process of using a stellar editorial board with required approval of the ACCI Campus Bridging Task Force ensures the release of a Roadmap that is both technically sound and fully responsive to the needs of CI-centric projects and capabilities of campus CI. If successful, this document will be a cornerstone for wider scale adoption and use of federated identity as defined by the InCommon Federation, the predominant trust fabric in existence today across academic campuses, while providing NSF a reference for the community in defining a path toward achieving the goal of shared CI.