InCommon Federation

Lehigh is a member of the InCommon Federation. The mission of InCommon is to create and support a common trust framework for U.S. education and research. This includes trustworthy shared management of access to on-line resources in support of education and research in the United States. To achieve its mission, InCommon will facilitate development of a community-based common trust fabric sufficient to enable participants to make appropriate decisions about the release of identity information and the control of access to protected online resources. InCommon is intended to enable production-level end-user access to a wide variety of protected resources. InCommon's Participants (member institutions) operate Identity Providers (IdPs) and Service Providers (SPs). IdPs are network-accessible services that authenticate users and provide identity information, according to local policy, about SPs. Lehigh's IdP is located at https://sso.cc.lehigh.edu. SPs are network-accessible services that rely on information from IdPs for the purpose of making access decisions and/or personalizing the user’s experience. There are over 4000 SPs within the InCommon Federation. Some examples of popular SPs at Lehigh are Course Site (our moodle based Learning Management System), G Suite, the qualtrics survey tool, and zoom (web conferencing).
InCommon has established a relationship with Eduroam, a global wireless network access service for research and education. An eligible organization (research organization or education-related organization) can provide users (students, researchers, staff and faculty) with wireless access at participating institutions through the use of their home institution credentials. See https://lts.lehigh.edu/services/eduroam-wireless-access for instructions on using eduroam with your Lehigh account.