Description of Member Representative Roles

Executive Liaison
The executive liaison serves as the main contact for the member organization. The executive liaison is responsible for gathering and disseminating general information about Internet2 activities to their community and assigning the other Internet2 representative roles for the organization. Each executive liaison is ultimately responsible for payment of dues and assessments and serves as the official voting representative for the member organization.
Internet2 Staff Contact: Marianne Smith

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

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
Internet2 Staff Contact: Eric Boyd

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: Eric Boyd

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: government@internet2.edu

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: Todd Sedmak

Internet2 Network Executive Contact
The executive contact serves as the primary administrative contact for purposes of their organization’s Internet2 Network connection. The executive contact is responsible for ensuring that their organization has adequate resources to support continuous and optimal connectivity to the Internet2 Network. The executive contact also assigns the other Internet2 Network contact roles for the organization. Each executive contact shall be responsible for payment of annual Internet2 Network connection, participation, and/or SEGP fees as applicable.
Internet2 Staff Contact: Rob Vietzke

Internet2 Network Technical Contact
The technical contact serves as the lead engineering point for an organization’s connection to the Internet2 Network. The technical contact is responsible for the resolution of problems involving the operation of the network. The technical contact ensures optimal day-to-day performance of their Internet2 Network connection and is the primary contact for the Internet2 Network NOC.
Internet2 Staff Contact: Rob Vietzke

Internet2 Network Billing Contact
The billing contact receives the invoices for annual Internet2 Network connection, participation, and/or SEGP fees and is authorized to process payment for these fees.
Internet2 Staff Contact: Rob Vietzke