About InCommon
The mission of the InCommon Federation is to create and support a common framework for trustworthy shared management of access to on-line resources in support of education and research in the United States. To achieve its mission, InCommon will facilitate development of a community-based common trust fabric sufficient to enable participants to make appropriate decisions about access control information provided to them by other participants. InCommon is intended to enable production-level end-user access to a wide variety of protected resources. InCommon uses standards-based, SAML-compliant Shibboleth® as its federating system.
Steering Committee
The InCommon Steering Committee is responsible for managing the business and affairs of InCommon and its Federation, including oversight and recommendations on issues arising from the operation and management of the InCommon Federation. Policies and practices approved by the Steering Committee are available on the Policies page.
- Lois Brooks, Stanford University – Vice Chair
- Ken Frazier, University of Wisconsin
- Clair Goldsmith, University of Texas System – Chair
- Ken Klingenstein, Internet2 (ex officio), University of Colorado
- Tracy Mitrano, Cornell University
- Kevin Morooney, Penn State
- Peggy Plympton, Lehigh University – Treasurer
- Chris Shillum, Elsevier
- Gene Spencer, Consultant
- Mike Teets, OCLC – Secretary
- Advisers:
- Renee Frost, Internet2, University of Michigan
- Norma Holland, EDUCAUSE (ex officio)
- David Wasley, retired, UCOP
Technical Advisory Committee
The InCommon Technical Advisory Committee provides recommendations relating to the operation and management of InCommon with respect to technical issues.- RL "Bob" Morgan, University of Washington – Co-Chair
- Renee Shuey, Penn State – Co-Chair
- Tom Barton, University of Chicago
- Scott Cantor, The Ohio State University
- Steven Carmody, Brown University
- Keith Hazelton, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Ken Klingenstein, InCommon Steering Committee
- Mike LaHaye, Internet2
- David Wasley, retired, UCOP
Operations
InCommon is operated by Internet2 staff, who are responsible for the business, policy implementation, technical operations, identity verification, and support of InCommon and its federation participants.
- John Krienke, Operations Manager
- IJ Kim, Lead Developer
- Angela Sizemore, Registration Authority