1. USHER U.S. Higher Education Root Certificate Authority
John Krienke
Manager, Integrated Operations, Internet2
Operations Manager, InCommon

2. Outline CA for Higher Ed Operations Governance
Requirements and Pricing
Early Adopters’ Program
Timeline

3. 1. USHER CA The root for U.S. Higher Education Emerging Needs
Campus SSL
Custom CAs (e.g., Temporary Conference Wireless Access)
Two-factor Authentication
CREN expirations
Campus VPNs
EduRoam
LionShare
Grids & Virtual Organizations
Bandwidth Management, security, e2e performance,
Federated Digital Signatures
Promise of secure, trusted exchange

4. Inter-realm and Intra-realm
2. Operations: Synergy
Inter-realm and Intra-realm
HEBCA
(Educause) RA
USHER CA
(Internet2) PA PA OA
Dartmouth

5. 2. Operations: Sub CAs High LoA USHER CA Low LoA USHER Heavy
USHER Lite
Policy OID

6. 3. Governance The USHER Policy Authority Michael Gettes
Jim Jokl (Chair)
Mark Luker
Barry Ribbeck
Jeff Schiller
Renee Shuey
David Wasley

7. 4. Requirements and Pricing
Descriptive and/or Prescriptive
U.S. Higher Ed and Partners
Pricing Model:
RA services
Single Subscription Fee for Enterprise Cert
Cost Recovery
Incentive for Adoption
Input

8. 5. PKI Early Adopters’ Program
Goals
Promote the use of PKi as a tool for business needs of institution
Improve the security and efficiency of networked interactions
Focus on local applications that might have broad and/or inter-institutional use
Output
Technical wisdom
Applications/infrastructure interactions
User/client issues and resolutions
Business plans
Recommendations for next steps, tuning the services
Local Project Support, Internet2 Flywheel, Technical Sharing, Visibility, Initial and Final Meetings
RFP soon: institutions, Identify possibilities for federal interaction: C4, federated signatures, etc., jumpstart USHER

9. 6. USHER Timeline July '05 August '05 September '05 March '06
PA starts to iron out governance, CP, CPS
RPS draft with HEBCA PA
Agreements between organizations
Subscriber Agreement
Invitation to Early Adopters’ Program
August '05
Selection of ~ Early Adopters
USHER Web presence
September '05
USHER goes live
Early Adopters meet
March '06
Early Adopter Program Ends
Technology Profiles and Best Practices written

10. Addendum: Challenges Technology Adoption Questions? jcwk@internet2.edu
Source: Thwarted Innovation, Zemsky and Massy, The Learning Alliance
Questions?