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• eduRoam implements 802.11x. Not all UC campuses are ready to support 802.11x on their wireless networks. Only Of the project team, only UCLA, UCD, and UCSD have committed to deploy already deployed 802.11x support; UCB, UCR, and UCSC will plan to do so. Some other campuses, not represented in the project team, do not foresee 802.11x support on their campuses even in the long run.
• Members of the call discussed eduRoam's relationship to InCommon. Today, eduRoam is a relatively loosely organized. It is more a technical implementation than a governing body. In particular, eduRoam has a more mature adoption in Europe than the US. There are talks of eduRoam becoming more integrated with InCommon. Nothing concrete there yet.
• A question came up regarding how the sub group reached the decision to recommend joining eduRoam-US. Although the history is documented in the Wireless group's meeting notes, Some felt the report should expand on the decision making process. David and Dedra will take the feedback to the wireless subgroup to refine the report.

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Regardless, the general issue of asserting service eligibility is coming up in a variety of projects. The group will tackle this topic in greater detail during the upcoming face-to-face meeting.

UPDATE: follow up email notes from Arlene:

"On the eacademy topic, my preference would be to have IdP's stay out of the mechanism used to register and track entitlements. It seems like our role would be to have a standardized methodology / nomenclature for reporting the status of someone's entitlement, whether it be edupersonentitlement or other. Our Software Central / Depot / what-have-you's are already in this business in varying degrees. I would not want them to see it as IAM usurping some of their functionality. I'm taking it as a given that the business case has already been made for why one would want more automation of these types of entitlement."

Face-to-face meeting

The group agreed tentatively to schedule a face-to-face meeting at Berkeley in early December.

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The group was running out of time on the call. David gave a quick update: The User Provisioning Project's report will be presented to ITLC at its September meeting. David asks everyone to read the ?User Provisioning documents (skip down to the Documents section), touch base with his/her CIO and ITAG representatives, and provide any feedback via the UC Trust mailing list.

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