InCommon The mission of InCommon is to create and support a common trust framework for U.S.
education and research.
Internet2 Internet2 is an exceptional community of U.S. and international leaders in research,
academia, industry and government who create and collaborate via innovative technologies.
MACE Uniform Resource Name Registry The InCommon Community Architecture Committee for Trust and Identity (CACTI) administers
a Uniform Resource Name (URN) namespace, supporting the assignment of unique, global,
persistent names to resources of various kinds.
NSTIC The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) is a White House
initiative to work collaboratively with the private sector, advocacy groups, public
sector agencies, and other organizations to improve the privacy, security, and convenience
of sensitive online transactions.
Shibboleth Consortium Shibboleth is a standards based, open source software package for web single sign-on
across or within organizational boundaries.
