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Grouper is an I2-sponsored project for managing groups. Check out the Grouper home page. Those interested may also want to join the Grouper mailing lists. The Grouper project is already aware of JA-SIG interest and is welcome (and encouraged!) to participate in the care and feeding of this WIKI section.
What is it?
(My initial take.) Grouper is an open source central group management facility. Grouper maintains a registry of groups and group memberships. The registry is loaded from sources of group information by loaders, presumably in periodic batch processes. Deep memberships (in Grouper, effective memberships) are computed at load time rather than at run time. Client applications can retrieve groups and memberships from Grouper with provisioning connectors. Authorization to perform group functions is handled internally by Grouper, rather than by a separate authorization system.
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