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About InCommon

The mission of InCommon is to create and support a common trust framework for U.S. education and research. This includes 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 the release of identity information and the control of access to protected online resources. InCommon is intended to enable production-level end-user access to a wide variety of protected resources.

InCommon Governance

InCommon Steering Committee

The InCommon Steering Committee is responsible for managing the business and affairs of InCommon, including oversight and recommendations on issues arising from the operation and management of InCommon. Policies and practices approved by the Steering Committee are available on the Policies page.

• Jack Suess, University of Maryland, Baltimore County – Chair
• Joel Cooper, Carleton College – Secretary
• Mark Crase, California State University - Treasurer
• Ardoth Hassler, Georgetown University
• Chris Holmes, Baylor University
• Ken Klingenstein, Internet2 (ex officio)
• Marilyn McMillan, New York University - Vice Chair
• Kevin Morooney, Penn State
• John O'Keefe, Lafayette College
• Craig Stewart, Indiana University
• Shel Waggener, University of California Berkeley

Advisers:

• Rodney Petersen, EDUCAUSE (ex officio)
• George Strawn, Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD)
• David Wasley, retired, University of California Office of the President

InCommon 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
• Jim Basney, University of Illinois
• Scott Cantor, The Ohio State University
• Steven Carmody, Brown University
• Paul Caskey, University of Texas System
• Michael Gettes, Carnegie Mellon University
• Keith Hazelton, University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Jim Jokl, University of Virginia
• Ken Klingenstein, InCommon Steering Committee
• Mike LaHaye, Internet2
• David Walker, Independent
• David Wasley, retired, University of California Office of the President
• Ian Young, U.K. Access Management Federation

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.