Service Provider Forum: Charter, Membership, and Governance

Abstract

Service Providers (SPs) are independently funded projects or organizations that provide cyberinfrastructure (CI) services to the science and engineering community. In the US academic community, there is a rich diversity of Service Providers, spanning centers that are funded by NSF to operate large-scale resources for the national research community to universities that provide resources and services to their local researchers. This Service Provider Forum is intended to facilitate this ecosystem of Service Providers, thereby advancing the science and engineering researchers that rely on these cyberinfrastructure services. This document describes the Service Provider Forum Charter, processes by which a Service Provider can join or leave the Service Provider Forum and the governance and bylaws of the Service Provider Forum.