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On Thursday, June 25 at 2 p.m. ET, join Internet2, Pathify, and Ball State University for a live webinar exploring how to truly transform the digital campus experience. You will hear directly from Ball State's IT leadership on how they successfully moved to a modern, service-oriented digital platform, alongside insights on how the NET+ Pathify program eliminates procurement friction with pre-negotiated higher education agreements. Whether you are looking to boost campus engagement or leverage peer collaboration for shared best practices, this session is packed with actionable strategies you won't want to miss. Register today: https://buff.ly/gaTb7m0 🚀 💻 🎓

We have all spent way too much time scrubbing through hour-long webinar recordings or digging through massive slide decks just to find a single technical answer.

To help solve this, Internet2 partnered with the Cal Poly Cloud Innovation Center to build something incredibly useful for our community: the I2Cloud Answers by Experts chatbot. 🤖☁️

This new tool uses natural-language queries to search through hundreds of community documents, video recordings, and presentations. Instead of hunting for hours, you can find precise, peer-generated cloud insights in seconds. It even links you directly back to the original source presentation.

We are treating this initial launch as a community experiment, and we need your real-world feedback to help make it better.

You can log in right now using your InCommon credentials or an Internet2 guest account at abe.internet2.edu to test it out. Please send any feedback or notes on what needs adjustment to [email protected] 📨

Check out the full blog post to see how it works and how it connects with our existing data tools: https://buff.ly/LLrvCkt

Help shape the future of The InCommon Federation! The PORE working group has released its draft recommendation for InCommon investment in OpenID Federation, and the community consultation is officially open. 🌐

What we invest in over the next few years will shape the next quarter-century of capability in research and education identity management. Don't miss your chance to have a seat at the table and ensure our trust models fit your needs.

Review the draft and share your perspective by June 27 at 12 p.m. CT! 📑👇
https://buff.ly/B1bujtk

What an incredible week at TNC26 in Helsinki! 🇫🇮 Internet2 was proud to lead and participate in sessions across the full breadth of the conference: from identity and networking to AI and global collaboration. Here's a look at what our team contributed Wednesday through Friday (with many sessions available as recordings):

🔹 Global eduroam Governance Committee BoF - Sara Jeanes 🔹 Global Leadership Development Program CEO Meetup - Romy Bolton, Chris Wilkinson, Meredith Lovelace, Carrie Groff & Brenna Meade 🔹 Rebooting the Old Reliables - Ann West and Oldies but Goodies: Evolving eduroam and Certificate Services- Sara Jeanes & Mary Bull 🔹 Federated Network Troubleshooting: Deploying HAWAT and Looking Glass Across the R&E Community - Karl Newell & Matt Mullins 🔹 Lightning Talk - Queries, Patterns, Trends: eduroam Data from the NRO Perspective - Mary Bull 🔹 From Regional Experience to Global Collaboration BoF- Michael Erickson 🔹 Coordinating BGP Policy and Tooling Across the Global R&E Infrastructure- Brenna Meade & Steve Wallace 🔹 Democratizing AI-Enabled Research Infrastructure: A Replicable Framework for Underserved Institutions- Michael Erickson 🔹 Global Network Advancement Group (GNA-G) Community Meeting- Chris Wilkinson, James Deaton & Brenna Meade 🔹 Joint SIG AI & RED Meeting: Agentic AI in NRENs- Dana Brunson

reminds us why this community is so special and so important now more than ever- the conversations, connections, and collaboration happening here move our mission forward together in real and meaningful ways. Until next time! 💙

Route Policy in Action: Managing Multicloud Prefix Limits

The first post in this series introduced the Virtual Networks Route Policy feature in Internet2 Insight Console and explored three key use cases: protecting BGP peers from max prefix limitations, preventing route leaks, and shaping traffic through attribute modification. These reflect real-world operational needs that research and education (R&E) network operators are actively navigating as cloud connectivity architectures grow in scale and complexity.

Now, let’s dive deep into practical examples that show how to use Route Policy to manage prefix advertisements in a multicloud environment while staying within cloud provider limits. The scenario in this blog is one that Internet2 member institutions have experienced firsthand, and it’s the kind of challenge Route Policy can address before it becomes an incident.

Read the full blog post here: https://buff.ly/eNZvra8

In a recent interview with Campus Technology, Internet2’s discussed why closing the research cyberinfrastructure access gap is so critical, and why investing in the research computing and data workforce is the highest-leverage step campuses can take.

There are researchers and students nationwide who could become the next innovators if they have the right support to access federally funded national resources like ACCESS and NAIRR.

You can read the full conversation here: https://buff.ly/AaFE7rH