What is the future of COmanage?
COmanage is designed as a catalytic agent as well as a code base. It is intended to demonstrate the need and value of consistent user management of the identities, groups and privileges across collaboration applications and more broadly. It is clear that many important applications, particularly enterprise business systems, have their own embedded tools and approaches. COmanage can be used to populate tables that feed those applications, but the applications may want to call out to external group and privilege services. For such needs, API’s will need to be developed for COmanage services. COmanage as an open source code base and development effort is partially funded by the National Science Foundation with additional support from Internet2. The intent is to build broad interest and support in the work and have it move to a broad and distributed development effort. At the same time, as application developers begin to code to group and privilege API’s for services delivered through an e
