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InCommon

InCommon serves a community of 6 million end-users (students, faculty and staff). For more, see the InCommon FAQ and the InCommon Participants List.

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Virtual Working Groups Archives Available

Recorded sessions (Adobe Connect) and slide decks are available from the May 20-21, 2013, virtual working group meetings. Topics include: Grouper, Shibboleth, CIFER, Interfederation, Social Identity, CoCoA (collaboration platform), and MACE-DIR.

Technical Topics and Guides

Our collection of technical material covers a number of topics and is of interest to current, new, and prospective participants. Topics include configuration guides for supported software and briefs on significant operational changes to the federation.

InCommon Collaborative Projects

• Building Identity Trust Federations (U.S. Federations Group)
• InCommon Library Collaboration Group
• InCommon Student Collaboration Group
• TeraGrid Project
• InCommon and NIH
• InCommon Future Group

Most of these projects have associated email discussion lists and most of the archives for these lists are publicly available.

Help for Projects
InCommon will assist groups working on common areas of interest.
On request, InCommon will provide:

• wiki working space 
• conference call resources for group meetings 
• email lists
• logistical help in setting up side meetings at Internet2 Member Meetings 

To find out more, email info AT incommon DOT org

Future 2019

Recognizing the inseparability of software and services for operating a robust and sustainable identity and access Federation, InCommon will assume stewardship of the TIER software and continue the upward trajectory launched by that program. One key need to ensure sustainability is funding. See the rationale and resources related to this change and the related proposed fee increase.

Working Groups and InCommon Governance

See a complete list of working groups and reports, including current and past work in our InCommon Working Groups wiki space.

The InCommon Steering Committee provides oversight and governance for InCommon. Meeting minutes are public and available here.

The InCommon Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) provides technical guidance for the InCommon Federation and typically has several working groups chartered to explore issues and technology. Meeting minutes are public and available here.

The InCommon Community Trust and Assurance Board (CTAB)  is the oversight body of the InCommon Assurance Program and advisory to the InCommon Steering Committee. CTAB Meeting minutes are available here.

Toolkits

Toolkits provide resources to help campus information technology professionals develop the case for federating. This material will help make the case with such diverse groups as chief information officers and campus stakeholders. The material in this section includes slide decks that you can use, as well as overviews and documents for your background and to use in presentations.

Trust and Identity Update - September 29, 2017

Slide deck (PDF)
Archived webinar (Adobe Connect)