TAMU Federation Memberships
Shibboleth was designed to support federated account management, i.e., each institution is expected to manage and maintain customer accounts and privileges. Institutions in a federation agree to operating procedures that control account management. In essence, the members of the federation trust one another to properly and adequately protect credentials and authorization information. Additionally, the members of the federation agree upon attributes that must be exchanged to authorize access to a service. A federation promotes secure and protected sharing of resources without compromising privacy.
Texas A&M is currently a member of the InCommon Federation along with a number of other universities and service providers. While no definite plans have been cast for a State of Texas Federation, research into such an organization is ongoing. CIS may also join and participate in additional federations at the State of Texas level should such federations be needed.
The TAMUFederation
More information on TAMUFederation can be found at the TAMUFederation site.
The InCommon Federation
More information on InCommon can be found at http://www.incommonfederation.org/.
TAMU InCommon Participant Operational Practices: