Bill,
The InCommon Technical Advisory Committee has launched an effort to develop a document that presents the landscape of identity-related projects of particular relevance to the Research and Education (R&E) community, including information about their state, the relationships among them, and gaps among those relationships and between the capabilities they provide and what is needed by this community. This Identity Landscape document is intended to provide information as input to strategic decision making by those providing leadership to the identified projects and to promote increased coordination among them. It will be written with those audiences in mind, though we also expect it to be shared widely with the R&E public.
As a representative of the CAS project, your participation in this effort would be invaluable to us and, we hope, to you as well. In order to give you an idea of what we're looking for, I have included a quick set of questionnaire topics that we are using to collect basic information about each project, as well as answers to that questionnaire for the Grouper project, at the bottom of this message. As you can see, we are looking for very brief summary information, although we may ask to schedule a telephone conversation at a later date to fill in additional information. Simply replying to this note, editing your responses into the Questionnaire Topics below would be greatly appreciated. We could also schedule a telephone interview to go through the questionnaire and draft answers for your review, if that works better for you.
Please let me know if you are willing to participate, or could designate someone else. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Thank you for your help.
David Walker
InCommon Technical Advisory Committee
dhwprof@gmail.com
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CAS is an authentication system originally created by Yale University to provide a trusted way for web application to authenticate a user. CAS became a Jasig project in December 2004 and subsequently an Apereo project in 2013.
CAS provides an enterprise web single sign-on service:
- An open and well-documented protocol
- An open-source Java server component
- A library of clients for Java, .Net, PHP, Perl, Apache, uPortal, and others
- Integrates with uPortal, BlueSocket, TikiWiki, Mule, Liferay, Moodle and others
- Community documentation and implementation support
- An extensive community of adopters
Goals / Roadmap
Specific goals the project has for the future. If available, also a time frame for achieving those goals.
CAS maintains a roadmap at: https://wiki.jasig.org/display/CAS/CAS+Roadmap.
CAS 4.0 is the current work in progress an includes the following scope slated for 2013:
- improved authN APIs to support multiple credentials (forces Major release per release strategy)
- new skin and better support for mobile devices
- Improvements to the Ldap Password Policy enforcement that are described here.
- potentially other minor evolutionary improvements that would have been targeted for 3.6.
Approach to Work
How priorities are set, the process for releasing deliverables, collaborative work style, expectations of members, etc.
CAS is loosely run as an Apache style open source project with priorities mostly set by availability of interested developers and committer consensus.
Strategies for Sustainability
Strategies for funding, inclusion of new members, etc.
CAS relies on Apereo to fund general community infrastructure (mailing lists, website, jira) as well as free infrastructure from github. Development and management of the project is mostly resourced directly from the participants.
Relationships with Other Projects
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