The primary goal of the NMI-EDIT Consortium, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI), is to improve the productivity of the research and education community through development, testing, and dissemination of architectures, software, and practices in the areas of identity and access management.

Our development efforts comprise a coordinated set of core middleware tools in the areas of identity and access management architectures, standards for deployments, related directory schemas, and tools. Current major projects include the Signet privilege and Grouper group management, and Middleware Diagnostic tools, and the Shibboleth technology.

Presentations and Workshops

• Proceedings available now from Advanced CAMP: Registering, Discovering, and Using Distributed Services in Academia
  June 19–20, 2008, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Proceedings available now from CAMP: Bridging Security and Identity Management
  February 13-15, 2008, Tempe, Arizona
• Proceedings available now from CAMP Shibboleth: Flexible Web-Based Authentication and Authorization and Advanced CAMP: Scaling Secure Collaboration from June 2007 in Portland, Oregon.

Activities and Related News

• Grouper v1.4.0 Released (January 4, 2009)
• Internet2 and EDUCAUSE Awarded NSF Grant to Develop Collaboration Tools (February 1, 2008)
• eduPerson (200712) Schema released (December 19, 2007)
• Grouper Groups Management Toolkit version 1.2.1 released (December 6, 2007)
• EDDY (End-to-end Diagnostic DiscoverY) platform version 0.5.2.2 released (November 5, 2007)
  
• Signet Privilege Management System version 1.2.0 released (May 25, 2007)
• From a state higher-education system and investigating implementing identity management? Review the system-related case studies on the Getting Started page.
  
  
• Want to know where your identity management infrastructure stands? Try the Self-Assessment Questionnaire (PDF) developed by Lynn McRae (Signet Project Lead) for the November CAMP.
  
  
• Learn about University of Florida's project to replace Social Security Numbers as a primary identifier.

This material is based in whole or in part on work supported by the National Science Foundation under the NSF Middleware Initiative - Grant No. ANI-0123937, OCI-0330626. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).