Internet2 names 22 members to InCommon committees

Internet2 named four new members to the InCommon Steering Committee and 18 new members to InCommon advisory committees, citing community-led governance that enabled secure collaboration across thousands of research and education institutions worldwide.

InCommon provides tailored identity and access management solutions, specialized tools, and strategic guidance for the privacy, trust, and security needs of research and higher education, and it supports cross-institutional collaboration through its community governance model.

As a gateway to digital access and cross-institutional collaboration, Identity Access Management (IAM) continues to grow more complex; InCommon's committees contributed practitioner expertise that influenced the tools and standards institutions relied on every day.

The InCommon Steering Committee, which provided strategic governance and oversight for the InCommon Federation, added four members to three-year terms: Rick Haugerud, interim chief information officer, University of Nebraska; Ryan McDaniel, associate vice chancellor and chief information officer, University of Alaska Anchorage; Carrie Rampp, vice president and chief information officer, Franklin & Marshall College; and David Seidl, vice president for information technology and chief information officer, Miami University. Advisory committees received 18 new appointees across technical, trust and assurance, architecture, and eduroam-US areas.

“Technologies, cyber threats, regulations, and standards are constantly changing,” said Kevin Morooney, vice president of trust and identity and NET+ programs at Internet2. “One dynamic that has remained consistent over the 20-plus-year history of InCommon is the commitment and engagement of community leaders to help guide InCommon's role in enabling inter-institutional collaboration. We're in good hands in the coming year with the new additions to the advising ecosystem we rely upon.”

“InCommon's strength lies in its community — leaders across research and education who show up not just to advise, but to actively shape the future of identity and access management,” said Christopher Misra, vice chancellor and chief information officer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and chair of the InCommon Steering Committee. New appointees will serve three-year terms; two committee chairs will serve terms ending in 2027 and two chairs will serve terms through 2026.