Roles of Internet2 Member Representatives

When a prospective member completes an application, they are required to list the various membership representatives who are taking the lead on various Internet2 related projects in the organization. A description of the roles are below.

Description of Member Roles

Executive Liaison
The executive liaison serves as the main contact for the member organization. The executive liaison is responsible for disseminating general messages about Internet2 activities among the community and assigning the other membership roles for the organization. Each executive liaison shall be responsible for payment of dues and assessments. The executive liaison ensures that the Chief Executive Officer of the member organization serves as the official voting representative of the member organization.
Internet2 Staff Contact: University and Affiliate: Laurie Burns
Corporate Contact: Jill Arnold

Engineering Representative
The engineering representative serves as the lead engineer for the member organization. Responsibilities include: disseminating messages from the engineering mailing lists, attending tech-related Internet2 conferences, and providing key infrastructure support within the organization.
Internet2 Staff Contact: Steve Cotter

End-to-End Performance Representative
The End-to-End Performance Initiative Representative has a working relationship with majority of the campus researchers and has responsibilities in insuring a supportive campus infrastructure for researchers. They understand the demands of technology support for researchers. Responsibilities include disseminating messages from the End-to-End Performance Initiative mailing lists, identifying researchers and technology support personnel who are interested in collaborating with other Internet2 members to improve the end-to-end performance of high performance applications.
Internet2 Staff Contact: Eric Boyd

Applications Representative
The applications representative serves as the lead applications developer for the member organization. Responsibilities include disseminating messages from the applications mailing lists, attending tech-related Internet2 conferences, and collaborating with other Internet2 members to develop leading applications.
Internet2 Staff Contact: Laurie Burns

Middleware Representative
The middleware contact is defined as the information technology architect who is responsible for campus-wide authentication and authorization, directory services, software infrastructure, and distributed computing.
Internet2 Staff Contact: Ken Klingenstein

Government Relations
The government relations representative is responsible for tracking government-related Internet initiatives while evaluating their relevance to activities within the organization. Other responsibilities include disseminating messages from the member update mailing lists.
Internet2 Staff Contact: Gary Bachula

Public Affairs
The public affairs representative is responsible for help promoting Internet2 activities within the member organization. This may include press releases, electronic and print publications and uses of the Internet2 logo on internal printed material. The representative may post messages to the Internet2 news mailing list and may disseminate messages within the organization.
Internet2 Staff Contact: Greg Wood

Billing Contact
The billing contact receives the invoices for Internet2 membership dues and Abilene fees as necessary
Internet2 Staff Contact: membership@internet2.edu.