InCommon Technical Advisory Committee

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

• InCommon TAC 2020 Work Plan
  • Deployment Profile Working Group recommendations
    
    • Encryption algorithms
    • Test tool development
      • Test Federation Working Group charter in draft (July 2020)
    • New subject identifier adoption
      • Planning discussion in progress (July 2020)
      • Multi-year effort
  • IdP as a Service (IdPaaS) Working Group
  • Federation 2.0 Working Group (REFEDS; TAC member, Judith Bush, Co-Chair)
    • See the REFEDS blog series on topics related to Federation 2.0

• 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

Past Work Items

• 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.

Meeting Minutes, Documents, White Papers

Public TAC Minutes (posted within two weeks of the meeting)

TAC Member Resources

Materials for TAC Members (private)