About

The InCommon Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) supports InCommon’s mission “to create and support a common framework for trustworthy shared management of access to online resources.” It is an advisory body to the InCommon Steering Committee. It provides advice on InCommon’s operational processes and practices, strategies, capabilities, and roadmap to InCommon Steering and to InCommon Operations (OPS). The TAC meets biweekly throughout the year. Members serve three-year terms.

TAC Charter and Current Members

Charter - The InCommon TAC charter is available on the InCommon website.

Visit the InCommon Community Leadership page for the current list of members.

There is also a page listing all current and past members.

Current Work Items

• Consultation is open:  Consultation for REFEDS Access Entity Categories Deployment Guidance
• InCommon TAC 2024 Work Plan - January - June 2024

  • Federation Proxies Working Group

  • Federation Readiness Check Working Group

  • Access Entity Category + SAML2Int Deployment - SAML Subject Identifier Adoption Strategy

  • Federation Testing Working Group

Past Work Items

• InCommon TAC 2023 Work Plan; 2023 Accomplishment Report
• InCommon TAC 2022 Work Plan; 2022 Accomplishment Report
• InCommon TAC 2021 Work Plan; 2021 Accomplishment Report
• InCommon TAC 2020 Work Plan
• Working Groups for 2019:
  • OIDC/OAuth Deployment
  • IdP as a Service (IdPaaS)
  • Federation 2.0 (REFEDS; TAC member, Judith Bush, Co-Chair)
    • See the REFEDS blog series on topics related to Federation 2.0
• Working Groups for 2018:
  
  • Deployment Profile WG (Work completed February 2019)
  • OIDC/OAuth Deployment
    • See the Objectives section of the charter for the 2018 work focus
  • Attributes for Collaboration and Federation
  • Streamlining SP Onboarding

TAC Chartered Working Groups & Final Reports

A list of current and recently concluded InCommon Working Groups (including TAC Chartered) is available on the wiki.