1. University of Colorado An Approach for Deploying Multi- campus Directory Services

2. CU Environment 4 campuses and central system (5 th ) No permanent unique identifier Individuals have multiple campus presence Many loose (sponsored) affiliations Unaligned computing environments

3. CU Environment (Cont) No standardized email naming Each campus needs to maintain unique directory attributes No common authentication method

4. CU Approach Centralized identity management –University-wide data sources –Campus specific data sources –Central reconciliation Separate but unified directory structure –Common schema at university level –Campus level objects

5. Object hierarchy University Level –inetorgperson –eduperson –cueduperson Campus level objects –coloradoeduperson –uccseduperson –etc

6. Colorado Colo SpgsUCHSCDenverBoulder Registry Central Data Sources Campus Data Sources

7. Links www.colorado.edu/its/committees/DirectoryServices http://middleware.internet2.edu/multicampus