eduGAIN is a service based in the EU that allows participating R&E federations to exchange metadata of IdPs and SPs to ease the cost and increase the interoperability among common partners and collaborations. European national R&E federations founded eduGAIN through the GÉANT consortium, where its governance continues to reside
ERG - InCommon Steering's External Relations and Governance subcommittee. Co-chaired by Chris Holmes from Baylor University and Joel Cooper from Swarthmore College, this community subcommittee of InCommon Steering is responsible for oversight of the community, corporate and organizational relationships regarding Identity activities.
FedOP refers to Federation Operators, a generic term that is used by REFEDS-member Federation to refer to the staff that manage the mechanics of running their identity federation.
FOPP is the Federation Operating Policies and Practices document that describes at a high level how the InCommon support organization is structured and how it operates to support the entire InCommon Federation.
GEANTs the pan-European research and education network that interconnects Europe’s National Research and Education Networks. GEANT runs eduGAIN metadata sharing service.TAC - InCommon Technical Advisory Committee. Chaired by Steven Carmody from Brown University, this community group is advisory to the InCommon Steering Committee and is responsible for lead the technical innovation of InCommon Federation primarily. THe group also oversees the InCommon Certificate Service.
Ops typically refers to Operations, the group of staff that manages the technical and business mechanics of operating an identity federation.
R&E (Research and Education) is a generic acronym for the Higher Education segment of the Education sector. It can also refer to the entire Education sector.
R&S (Research and Scholarship) refers to a category of service providers in InCommon that have attested to compliance with the InCommon Research and Scholarship Category definition.
REFEDS (Research and Education Federations) is the collection of international identity federation working together to benefit the mutual needs of research and education identity federations worldwide. It aims to represent the requirements of research and education in the ever-growing space of access and identity management, working with and influencing the direction of appropriate organizations on behalf of their participants. This group develops standards and polices (like the REFEDS Research and Scholarship Category Tag) to aid in global interoperability among R&E Federations.