CIFER (Community Identity Framework for Education and Research) Overview for Prospective Contributors ciferproject.org Bill Yock Director, Enterprise Information Services University of Washington Chair of Kuali Rice Board of Directors

Identity and Access Mgmt Complexities US higher education spends more than $500m annually on identity and access management (IAM). >5% of all HE IT expenditures, ~$25/student/year sector-wide. (sources: Gartner/Forrester, ) 1

The Problems ASTRA – Access Mgmt PersonReg – Identity The UW Knows these problems all too well! 2

The Solution! Coordination across communities! Comprehensive, yet modular, components! Higher Education Focused! 3

Open API’s and development tools for flexible implementations. Event driven, rule based and SOA architectures for robust Integration! Robust and extensive set of services! Common API’s for all components! 4

Large library of contributions and documentation to connect, transform and provision systems! 5

Designed for federation, social and cloud based services! 6

New central console for administration and configuration of all components. Open API’s and development tools for flexible implementations. Open API’s and development tools for flexibility and supportability. 7

CIFER Governance Structure Executive Trustees Existing Project Caretakers Project Manager / Coordination Committee Workstream Committees Stakeholder Council LEGEND: = CIFER Financial / Strategic = CIFER Technical / Coordination = Existing Project Governance Representation based on contribution levels, elect Executive Trustees Board of directors, allocate resources, elect PM and Coordination Committee Overall CIFER project planning and coordination Workstream specific planning, coordinate with existing project governance 8

CIFER - 3 Contribution Levels Participants $1/FTE Student/Yr for 2 yrs $50K Total Cap Teaching Centric Institutions, including Liberal Arts and Community Colleges Supporters $2/FTE Student/Yr for 2 yrs $100K Total Cap Leaders $5/FTE Student/Yr for 2 yrs $250K Total Cap Doctoral class institutions, significant graduate and professional but limited scope research agendas Research institutions and existing consortia organizations of Internet2, Jasig and Kuali Commercial affiliates, non-profit higher-ed service providers, learned societies, trust federations are all expected and strongly encouraged to contribute! 9 (Contribution may be cash or equivalent FTE in-kind resource)

CIFER Project Timeline and Costs Estimate $8M total cost over 2 Years ($4M per year) to meet all new development, QA and Integration objectives Estimate $500K - $750K per year after to sustain patch releases and incremental improvements 10

How to Participate? Visit the CIFER web site: and read the prospectuswww.ciferproject.org Sign a Letter of Intent Subscribe to our mailing list: Tell all your friends! 11

CIFER (Community Identity Framework for Education and Research) Questions? Contact: Bill Yock