Trust and Identity Program Advisory Group Meeting - May 13, 2019
Minutes
Attending: Ted Hanss, Kevin Morooney, Laura Paglione, Klaas Wierenga, Mike Erickson, Klara Jelinkova, Chris Phillips, Steve Zoppi, Sean Reynolds
Informational items
- The Trust and Identity Project list is updated every two weeks.
- We are added recent minutes from the other Internet2 Program Advisory Groups
InCommon Fee Change Status Update
Kevin sent email from InCommon Steering to the InCommon Execs and participants lists regarding the fee change. We’ve received four emails back. All had a question about the participation level of their institutions. There were two other sidebar questions unrelated to the fee change.
We had an internal question about whether these two lists are sufficient for the announcement. These are the lists we’ve used when we’ve made changes to the Participation Agreement - like eduGAIN and Baseline - so it makes sense to use them in this context as well.
Eduroam
Kevin Morooney, Ann West, Steve Zoppi, and Mike Zawacki visited the Utah Education Network (UEN) to discuss an eduroam pilot primarily aimed at K-12. There has been some interest from other regionals. The visit was helpful in discovering the challenges and potential solutions being explored.
There was also discussion about a new eduroam advisory group that CACTI is spinning up. The intent is to fill a gap for a place to have community discussions about the eduroam service and technology. It will be roughly equivalent to the current InCommon Technical Advisory Committee that focuses primarily on federated identity.
InCommon Trusted Access Platform
Steve Zoppi reported on a visit to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), which hosted a meeting of all Department of Energy Labs. LBNL hosts a sophisticated banking system the DOE labs use for allocating time and charging back for resources provided to one-another. They are adopting the InCommon Trusted Access Platform software for this and other purposes and the meeting was part of a formal review process of the software and architecture. Out of 50-some topics discussed, there were only two recommendations (which are things that need to be fixed prior to deployment). Both of these are in the process of being remediated. There was unanimous support from the attendees for the software and the work the community has done. These were thoughtful, detail-oriented, technically-deep business people doing the review. The reference architecture produced by Tom Jordan and the architects was adopted without question.
There was some confusion about midPoint and how that fits in with their puzzle. midPoint provides the final identity store of record in our architecture, but it is not mandatory. One takeaway from this meeting is that we need to be clear on the role of midPoint. Components like Grouper and COmanage are consumers of midPoint data.
Baseline Expectations
Wednesday is the day for metadata removal. There are just two entities our of 762 slated for removal. Kevin said he is confident that we have done everything we can to contact these organizations and get their attention, but there has been no response.
Common Solutions Group
The CSG meeting is coming up. CSG consists of about 30 top-tier research institutions and there are usually about 75 attendees. Tom Barton, Kevin, and Brett Bieber will be leading a discussion on research collaboration.