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Signet Infosheet (PDF)
Identity and Access Management Infosheet (PDF)

Signet v1.3.0 released: July 17, 2008 NEW
Part of NSF Middleware Initiative: NMI-EDIT

Working Group Charter

1. It will produce a "Privilege Management Recipe" document that describes the functions of a PM Service and its role in the campus IT environment, and detail deployment and use scenarios. Case studies from campuses using PM Services will be developed.
2. It will produce a "Privilege Management Toolkit" (dubbed Signet), a software package that can be customized by campuses to deploy central PM Service, including core data management, user interface, import/export functions, etc.
3. It will work closely with related Internet2 Middleware efforts to ensure that Signet can integrate well with other infrastructure. In particular the Grouper groups-management project in the MACE-Dir WG will provide complementary functions.
4. It will establish requirements for Signet support of multi-organizational authorization scenarios, in particular the "virtual organizations" by which much modern scholarly activity is conducted.
5. It will support group-based privilege management, and help understand future Signet requirements for interacting with roles and managing their corresponding privileges.
6. It will help establish standards for representing role and privilege information as eduPerson attributes.

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Signet Software (Part of NMI-EDIT)

Signet v1.3.0 NEW

• XML import/export capability - both API and command-line tool
• Expanded API in Signet's persistence layer (database API)
  
• Architectural cleanup and refinements
• Increased visibility of several APIs
  
• Removed unused / unnecessary APIs
  
• Simplified the object model
  
• Improved persistence layer design
  
• Now using C3PO DB connection pooling (like Grouper)
  
• Improved documentation
• and much more...
• Release Notes are included on the software download page in the wiki.

Signet Working Group Final Documents
There are no Final Documents at this time. Draft & Archived Documents can be found in the Signet Project Wiki. Also look for Product Documentation in the wiki.

For reference, see also the Internet2 Document Library. For more information on submitting draft documents, see the Internet2 Document Guidelines, then add your document to the wiki.

• Signet Trademark Guidelines and Styleguide
• Signet License
• Minutes of Internet2 Middleware Initiative User Interface Call: February 2, 2005