nmi-edit

The primary goal of the NMI-EDIT Consortium, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI), is to improve the productivity of the research and education community through development, testing, and dissemination of architectures, software, and practices in the areas of identity and access management.

Our development efforts comprise a coordinated set of core middleware tools in the areas of identity and access management architectures, standards for deployments, related directory schemas, and tools. Current major projects include the COmanage collaboration management platform, Grouper groups management toolkit, and the Shibboleth single sign-on and federating software.
 

NMI-EDIT components are grouped in the following categories:

• Software that supports a wider variety of desktop-security, video, and enterprise uses.
• Directory Schema that are pieces of movable code that facilitate the federated model of directory-enabled, inter-realm authentication and authorization. (Click here for more information.)
• Conventions and Practices that capture the lessons learned from campuses which have implemented middleware.
• Architecture Documents that summarize current thinking about middleware issues involved in collaborative applications.
• Policies that provide guidance on how an institution can manage certificates, including legal liabilities and limitations, standards on contents of certificates and actual campus practices.
• Services to support resource registration, testing, discovery, and use.