Welcome to the InCommon Working Groups Home
This is the home for InCommon Working Groups. Below you will find pointers to the wikis for current and past working groups. You may also want to visit guidelines for working group chairs and flywheels.
InCommon Working Groups
| Working Group | Chair(s) | Chartered by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| OIDC Survey Working Group | Albert Wu, UCLA | InCommon TAC | Active |
| Deployment Profile Working Group | Keith Wessel, University of Illinois | InCommon TAC | Active |
| Per-Entity Metadata Working Group | Scott Koranda, LIGO | InCommon TAC | Active. Final Report is here |
| Certificate Service Review Working Group | Christopher Bongaarts, University of Minnesota | Ann West, Internet2 Associate Vice President, Trust & Identity | Complete |
| Walter Hoehn, University of Memphis | InCommon TAC | Complete (Final Report 2016-03-03). Profile work turned over to Kantara Initiative WG-FI. | |
| Karen Herrington, Virginia Tech | InCommon AAC | Active | |
| InCommon Student Collaboration Group | Ann West, Internet2 (contact) | Community chartered | Active |
| Ann West, Internet2 (contact) | Community Chartered | Active | |
| InCommon-Workday | CW Belcher, University of Texas at Austin | Community Chartered | Active |
| New Entities Working Group | Jim Jokl, University of Virginia | InCommon TAC | Complete (Recommendations) |
| External Identities Working Group | Eric Goodman, University of California, Office of the President | InCommon TAC | Complete (Final Report 2015-06-11) |
| Alternative IdPs Working Group | Janemarie Duh, Lafayette College | InCommon TAC | Complete (Final Report 2014-12-11) |
| IdP of Last Resort Working Group | Keith Hazelton, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Steve Olshansky, ISOC | InCommon TAC | Complete (Final Report 2015-06-11) Internationalization effort, under REFEDs, is ramping up as of June 2016. See here. |
| Metadata Distribution Working Group | John Krienke, Internet2 | InCommon TAC | Complete (Phase 1 Recommendations 2013-09-05; Phase 2 Recommendations 2014-01-23) |
| Interfederation Working Group | Jim Basney, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and Warren Anderson, LIGO | InCommon TAC | Complete (June 2013 recommendations to TAC; March 2014 Final Report to TAC) |
| eduGAIN Policy and Community Working Group | Teresa Semmens, North Dakota State | InCommon Steering | Intent Paper |
| Social Identity Working Group | Steven Carmody, Brown, and Keith Hazelton, University of Wisconsin-Madison | InCommon TAC | Complete. A follow-on activity was the External Identities Working Group |
| Quilt InCommon Pilots Working Group | George Laskaris, NJedge.net | InCommon | Complete. See White Paper. |
(TAC = Technical Advisory Committee; AAC = Assurance Advisory Committee)
InCommon Governance and Advisory Groups
| Group | Chair |
|---|---|
(Governance) | Klara Jelinkova, Rice University |
| InCommon Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) | Steven Carmody, Brown University |
| InCommon Assurance Advisory Committee (AAC) | Chris Spadanuda, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
Other Working Groups
Here are other working groups of interest, sponsored by Internet2, but not directly sponsored by InCommon.
- TIER Working Groups Home
- CIFER - as of Q3 2015, transitioned to TIER Data Structures and APIs WG
- Grouper (enterprise access management system)
- MACE-Directories
- Scalable Consent
- LARPP Consent (older)
- LARPP - Consent Manager Internals (older)
- Multifactor Authentication Cohortium (no longer active)
- End to End Trust and Security (one of three CINO Working Groups)
Guidelines for Trust and Identity Working Group Chairs and Flywheels
Guidelines for Trust and Identity Working Group Chairs and Flywheels
Resources/Links of Interest
Consultations/Document Reviews
InCommon Technical Work Update and Plans
- webinar from August 2016, (Adobe Connect recording and slides (PDF))
- webinar from Jan 2016, (Adobe Connect recording and slides (PDF))
Internet2 website listing of working groups
InCommon Assurance AD Silver Cookbook
Presentation on New InCommon Working Groups, August 2014 (.pdf)
Internet2 Support Levels for Trust and Identity Working Groups (Google Doc)
Guidelines for Trust and Identity Working Group Chairs and Flywheels
Working Group Call Agenda template
Tools for Publicizing Working Groups, Recruiting New Members and Onboarding