The InCommon Federation is the U.S. education and research identity federation, providing a common framework for trusted shared management of access to on-line resources. Through InCommon, Identity Providers can give their users single sign-on convenience and privacy protection, while online Service Providers control access to their protected resources. Lehigh University is a member of the InCommon Federation and as such, has agreements with other organizations that allow Lehigh users to log into other systems using their Lehigh account credentials. See a list of InCommon participants.