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105                  Early Adopters: An Internet 2 Middleware Project

Jeffrey Cepull, University of Pittsburgh

 

Goals of the Early Adopters Project

 

Primary Goals

 

  - facilitate campus deployments of core middleware technologies

  - identify reasonable technical and policy approaches, and design issues and factors, that influence institutional selection of a particular approach enrich the technical contents of Early Harvest

  - inform the larger community---for example, higher education more generally, NIH, and NSF of requirements for middleware deployment and interoperability

 

Secondary Goals

 

  - development of the EDUPerson

  - adherence to IMS standards

  - explore medical middleware issues

generic---how is this expressed in the core deployment?

specific---what medical data structures need integration into campus environments?

 

  - outreach to encourage other institutions

  - research options for authorization services

  - evaluate new tools and technologies

 

Intended audience: Administrators, managers, developers, systems staff

 

Key words:  middleware, IMS, LDAP, interoperability, EDUPerson

 

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