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Arnie is joining us for the first time. He is a middleware architect at Georgetown University working with InCommon and the (former "AdmitMe") Common Identity and Trust Collaborative (CommIT) effort. This involves a use case that has high school students moving on to college, and they need to solve for trusted third-party-asserted credentials. Today they concentrate mostly on authentication, but they want to go on to solve for controlling the sharing of credentials.
The CommIT app represents about 500 universitiesOne participant in CommIT, CommonApp, represents 500 universities. CommIT is part of a strategic partnership between InCommon and the Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council (PESC). Their goal is to simply college applications. A student could use the CommIT app to authorize sharing of data – e.g., log in, authorize, then log out. But perhaps they could also log in to authorize sharing of data that hasn't been created yet ("when I take this test, it's okay to share the results with x, y, and z").
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