InCommon Round-Up: 3 Things You May Have Missed in October

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InCommon Community Service Spotlight with Richard Frovarp

The Call for InCommon Advisory Committee Nominations is underway, and InCommon is highlighting current community volunteers. 

This month, InCommon sat down with Richard Frovarp, principal software engineer at North Dakota State University, to learn about his experience on InCommon’s Community Trust and Assurance Board (CTAB).

CASE STUDY: Distributed Authorization Workflow for Volunteer Research Administrators

The Open Science Grid (OSG) Consortium is a distributed high throughput computing (dHTC) organization that manages access to a global network of data and computing resources shared across more than 70 institutions. The OSG Consortium worked with InCommon Catalyst CILogon to implement a user registry to facilitate distributed onboarding, offboarding, and authorization workflows delegated to volunteer administrators across the globe.

Check out this latest InCommon case study to learn about how the OSG Consortium outsourced the credentialing and authentication tasks to researchers’ home institutions and focused solely on the authorization workflows to ensure the right researchers have access to their projects in a timely manner. 

October IAM Online Speaker Spotlight

As eduroam grows and matures, a set of baseline expectations represents the community’s commitment to maintaining the trusted, seamless connectivity that has made eduroam a valuable resource for millions of users.

In the October 2025 IAM Online, eduroam Advisory Committee members Derek Eiler and Mike Dickson introduced the eduroam Baseline Expectations framework. The framework is a set of standards designed to ensure consistent service quality.

InCommon sat down with Derek and Mike ahead of their IAM Online session to hear about their work on developing the eduroam Baseline Expectations.