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• The CRU federation
• eduroam.fr
• SCS in France
• directory schema

News about...

Federation news...

• Current members :

– 27 IdPs – 18 SPs (including Elsevier and EBSCO)

• Future SPs :

– Microsoft (MSDN-AA) – Ovid – Lexis Nexis – CRU own services (wiki, mailing list server, gforge)

Federation news...

• Shibbolized applications :

– Dokuwiki : authZ is based on Sympa ML membership – Gforge : only SubVersioN could not be shibbolized – WebDav (work in progress) : carried by the ESUP consortium

• The CRU will do a workshop to help French

universities to «shibbolize» applications

Federation news...

• Shibboleth and MS Sharepoint

– CRU interested in similar projects in other countries

• Work to «shibbolize» SAP
• Tests with Macrovision.com :

– Provide access control management packages to academic publishers – RightAccess and RightCommerce softwares

Federation news...

• A «home for the homeless»

– Required to use shibboleth for national services – We are about to open this service, operated by CRU – Includes a home-grown group management tool – This IdP will not be part of the «default» federation

eduroam news...

• 64 institutions provide the service

synergies.modernisation.gouv.fr/

SCS news...

• Statistics:

– 115 universities have registered – 1143 delivered certificates (avg: 10.99) – 120 «wildcard» certificates (avg: 1.15) – 11 revocated certificates

• The previous CRU PKI will close on 31/12/2007

SCS news...

• CRU has developped a web interface aside

SCS web interface :

– For end-users to pre-validate cert requests – For operators to verify requests

• A first version has been distributed

– No feedback yet...

• Next version will integrate with SCS interface

directory schema

• Ongoing work

– Define nomenclatures – Define structures – Integrating SCHAC – ...