What problem is COmanage trying to solve?
With a CO potentially consisting of individuals from multiple institutions, all with different unique authentication infrastructures, many COs resort to creating yet another identifier for the individuals so they can do their collaboration through whatever tools are available. This proliferation of identifiers for an individual means more things for them to remember, and no automated way to know when that individual leaves the CO. The goal of COmanage is to make the infrastructure of identity management for a CO much more streamlined by leveraging the information back at the home institution through Middleware tools such as Shibboleth Federated Single Sign-On Software and Grouper Groups Management Toolkit.
