Sponsored Partners

If you are a partner of a higher-education institution, you must have a current InCommon higher education participant sponsor your participation. The sponsoring institution's designated InCommon Executive must send to InCommon, via email or postal mail, a sponsorship letter as suggested below, including the Sponsored Partner's homepage URL and the name of their Executive-level contact. We use this information to cross-reference the Partner's application and to begin the identification and authentication steps necessary to validate the organization and its trusted officers. If you need assistance finding a sponsor, contact us.

Template for Minimal Sponsorship Letter

To: incommon-admin@incommonfederation.org
[InCommon, c/o Internet2, 1000 Oakbrook Dr, Suite 300, Ann Arbor, MI 48104]

Dear InCommon,

[Sponsored Partner] is currently involved in providing resources to the higher education, research and education community. I believe this service provider will be an InCommon Federation participant in good standing and submit their name and URL below.

Sincerely,

[InCommon Executive Liaison]

Sample Sponsorship Letter

Dear InCommon,

SAMPLE University entered into a business relationship with PARTNER in 2007 to use their web-based resource to support individualized instruction in IT topics to faculty, staff, and students. We want to use our identity management system to leverage their product. In addition, we are currently engaged in a project with PARTNER that will allow our students to access digital versions of textbooks published by PARTNER in a way that leverages our identity management system. For both of these products we want to be able to provide access either directly by end users or via our course management systems. In order to accomplish our goals with both of these services, we would like to sponsor PARTNER to join InCommon.

Sincerely,

Dr. Executive
Vice Provost, Information Technology
SAMPLE University