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InCommon Steering Resolution on InCommon Fee Change

In May 2018, the InCommon Steering Committee began discussions regarding the future operational and financial sustainability of InCommon.  There are many converging dynamics that triggered such a discussion; the successful completion of the TIER program, a change in support for Shibboleth, and the recognition of the intricate and ever increasing connection between the operation of the federation and the software upon which it depends compel the steering committee to position InCommon to both seize opportunities and mitigate risks associated with these dynamics.

After several months of discussion and working with InCommon/Internet2 staff, a potential new InCommon service fee schedule was developed to address these dynamics.  The InCommon Steering Committee and senior InCommon/Internet2 staff invited all InCommon Executives and Participants to a January 2019 webinar where the dynamics and the proposed new fee schedule were discussed and feedback, concerns solicited.  Open office hours (to which InCommon Executives and Participants were again invited) were conducted weekly for four weeks, to continue to solicit feedback on the proposed new fee schedule.  All webinar materials were made available on a web site (https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/x/DQJ0C) and a Frequently Asked Questions document was developed (https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/x/KAJ0C).

The current InCommon fee schedule can be viewed at https://www.incommon.org/fees.html.

The proposed new fee schedule is: