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.

March 22 TAC Work Plan Webinar

Wednesday, March 22, 2017
2 pm ET | 1 pm CT | Noon MT | 11 am PT
https://internet2.adobeconnect.com/iam-online

The InCommon Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) will present its draft 2017 work plan during this webinar, March 22, at 2 pm ET. The TAC provides recommendations related to the technical operation and management of InCommon. The work plan outlines the proposed technical priorities, particularly for the InCommon Federation.

This webinar is intended to gather community feedback on the work plan. This year’s draft plan includes these topics (among others):

    •    Support for OAuth/OpenID Connect

    •    Improving IdP discovery (Discovery 2.0)

    •    Less restrictive attribute release policies

    •    Improve Service Provider onboarding processes


Please plan to join us to learn about the 2017 plans and provide feedback and suggestions.

TAC Charter and Current Members

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

TAC Members:

• Mark Scheible, MCNC – Chair
• Janemarie Duh, Lafayette College - Vice-Chair
• Tom Barton, University of Chicago
• Steve Carmody, Brown University 
• Eric Goodman, University of California Office of the President 
• Mike Grady, Unicon
• Walter Hoehn, University of Memphis 
• Jim Jokl, University of Virginia
• Kim Milford, REN-ISAC
• Chris Misra, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
• Tom Mitchell, GENI Project
• Keith Wessel, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Albert Wu, UCLA 

Current Work Items

(Proposed 2017 Work Plan Items Available for Community Comment in March )

TAC Chartered Working Groups

A list of current 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)

TAC Meeting Agendas (private)