An InCommon Roadmap for NSF Cyberinfrastructure

InCommon项目描述了为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制定一份指导文件的活动，以采用和使用构成美国校园身份联合会的技术和政策，称为InCommon。在现有InCommon文档的基础上，本Roadmap文档将重点关注加入和参与InCommon联盟的动机和政策以及技术。该文件还将包括对NSF的建议。该文件将在技术和政策专家编辑委员会的主持下编写，最后定稿将由ACCI校园桥接工作队批准。路线图文档的成功之处在于增加了成员数量和使用了联合身份。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，在如何克服政策、技术和社会挑战以制定清晰简明的指导意见方面，存在着智力上的优势。GridShib的创建者，沿着编委会的成员，都非常有资格制作一个合理的路线图。采用和使用本文档的一个关键驱动因素是使用InCommon的动机，InCommon作为第一个重点领域是合适的。该提案包括一个详细的时间轴，并适当界定了三个重点领域。在ACCI校园桥接工作组的批准下使用一流的编辑委员会的过程确保了路线图的发布，该路线图在技术上是合理的，并充分响应了以CI为中心的项目和校园CI能力的需求。如果成功，本文档将成为更大规模采用和使用InCommon Federation定义的联合身份的基石，InCommon Federation是当今学术校园中存在的主要信任结构，同时为NSF社区定义实现共享CI目标的路径提供参考。

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.