1. Collaboration and Federated Identity Two powerful forces being leveraged – the rise of federated identity – the bloom in collaboration tools, most particularly in the Web 2.0 space but including file shares, email list procs, etc Collaboration management platforms provide easy to use identity services and “domesticated” applications that have externalized their identity management dimensions, using a general identity/group/privilege/etc repository (LDAP, MySQL, etc.) Results in user and collaboration centric identity, not tool-based identity COmanage is a collaboration management platform, supported in part by a NSF OCI grant, being developed by the Internet2 community, with Stanford as a lead institution

2. COmanage can provide authentication and basic authorization services (group membership, privilege management, etc) to domesticated apps Domesticated applications currently include wiki, listproc, Jira, Subversion, Al Fresco. Plan to add audioconferencing, IM and chat rooms, EC2, Fedora, web-based file share, etc. Can be launched as an image in the Amazon cloud. Not “collaboration in a box”. More collaboration in a fully permeable membrane. The “stand-alone” can be readily replumbed to be completely integrated into enterprise, federated or other attribute ecosystems as they develop Uses Shibboleth and Grouper and…

3. Domestication A continuum of “training” applications to use the emergent identity services infrastructure Begins with federated identity and authentication, use of directories Gains a quantum from group management for access control, etc Needs a fine grain set of authorization tools down the road

4. Comanage deployment models By a VO At the enterprise level for inter-institutional collaborations By a VO service center or federation In the cloud

5. Comanage growth dimensions In the number of applications domesticated In the degree of domestication of specific applications In the externalized capabilities that Comanage supports – e.g. privileges, diagnostics, etc. In the human interface In the ability to participate with other Comanage instances and the attribute eosystem

6. Comanage development model Open source, open license Alpha release imminent Build a developer community Beta release this summer Engagement with application developers Releases have funky animal names, reflecting differences versus upgrades…

7. User interface Two levels – presentation and mental maps – Presentation – accommodating disabilities, multilingual and multicultural requirements – Mental maps – helping navigate between roles, privileges Very early in both dimensions Engagement with Fluid

8. Helping users to manage the metadata of collaboration Structuring roles, privileges and access management in virtual organizations Metadata across tools - tagging Metadata across content Archiving and provenance