Notes from ACAMP Action Item Leads Call November 17, 2010

Attending:
Tom Barton, University of Chicago
Renee Shuey, The Pennsylvania State University
Scott Cantor, The Ohio State University
Keith Hazelton, University of Wisconsin
Mark Scheible, NC State
Tim Poe, MCNC
Chris Hyzer, University of Pennsylvania
Benn Oshrin, Internet2
Renee Frost, Internet2
Ann West, Internet2
Emily Eisbruch, Internet2 (scribe)

Review of ACAMP Action Item Process So Far

TomB welcomed the group. This is third of three "check-in" calls that the Advance CAMP Program Committee has scheduled with the Action Item Leads, as stated in the Follow-Up Plan.

At the end of the call, we will ask if there should be another call scheduled in a few months, to help keep tabs on how things are progressing.

There are 15 activites that continue to have an active state. In most cases, some substantial work is being done.

Reports from the Leads

Each Lead should report on 1) status and 2) Plans for "home" for the work going forward, if applicable
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Action Item: Determine next steps for promotion of open source IdM Products (Benn)

https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/ACAMPActionItems/ACAMP2010-PromotingOpenSourceProducts

 Benn reported:

  • This action item group has held several calls and has made progress.
  • Landscape and gap analysis under way
  • Reference architecture underway
  • Marketing collateral inventory under way
  • Establishing a community effort to define service contracts for group interfaces and possibly provisioning interfaces
  • Establishing a clearinghouse for projects such as OpenRegistry and a new provisioning initiative
  • New Home: Most Likely: Jasig Community of Practice

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Action Item: IAM Governance Best Practices (Mark)

Mark reported:

  • This action items is under the umbrella of the EDUCAUSE IAM Working Group Toolkit & Effective Practices Subgroup, of which Mark is chair.
  • The group plans a survey in early December, asking for topics.
  • Plan is for the group to focus on the topics that come forward from the  survey, in order of need
  • Plan is to maintain a record of activities on the Internet2 wiki, with a link from the EDUCAUSE site
  • New Home: EDUCAUSE IAM Working Group Toolkit & Effective Practices Subgroup

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Action Item: Identify & Promulgate Tools for Risk Assessment and Entropy Calculation (Mark)

Mark reported:

  • The EDUCAUSE IAM Subgroup will keep the action item "risk assessment and entropy calculation" on their radar, but this is not in fact a primary effort or goal of the subgroup.
  • Should the "risk assessment and entropy calculation" issue be made a subset of InCommon Silver?
  • This issue is a place holder for people's desire to know how to mitigate the risks that InCommon Silver addresses.
  • Mark and TomB will continue to communicate about this.
  • New Home: EDUCAUSE IAM Working Group Toolkit & Effective Practices Subgroup

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Action Item: Revise the InCommon Silver IAP (ReneeS)

https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/ACAMPActionItems/ACAMP2010+-ReviseInCommonSilverIAP

ReneeS reported:

  • A small subteam of the InCommon TAC was formed to refine InCommon Silver. 
  • Goal is to change the InCommon Bronze & Silver Identity Assurance Profiles (IAPs) to more closely align with requirements of the Trust Framework Provider Adoption Process (TFPAP) . 
  • The team has met two times establishing a process for change (review by small group, review by larger community and then moving changes to a production credentialing service).
  • One of the immediate tasks is to remove items that are not related to the TFPAP from the current InCommon Silver IAP.
  • This team will be meeting face to face for two days in the first week of December .
  • The plan is to have new documents ready for review by end of year.
  • New Home: InCommon Wiki Space

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Action Item: Develop Capabilities in Grouper for Federated Group Management Similar to COmanage (Chris)

https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/ACAMPActionItems/ACAMP2010+-+Federated+Group+Management+in+Grouper

Chris reported:

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Action Item: Define a Standard API for Groups (TomB)

https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/ACAMPActionItems/ACAMP2010+-DefineStandardAPIforGroups

TomB reported:

  • Keith and TomB have been collatorating on this action item.
  • Folks from uPortal, Kuali and Grouper are all interested in this topic of a standard API for groups
  • Right now, the focus is to look at eduMember and add more heft to it
  • New Home: MACE-Directories Working Group

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Action Item: Assess Various Policy Engines using MACE-paccman Benchmark Use Cases (Keith)

Keith reported:

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Action Item: Document and promulgate best practice for synching Google groups from campus groups (Steven)

https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/ACAMPActionItems/ACAMP2010+-BestPracticeSyncingGoogleGroupsFromCampusGroups

TomB reported for Steven :

  • University of Washington recent went into production with a system replicating groups from Grouper into Google Groups for education.
  • Jim Fox and collaborators are willing to share what they've learned and share their code
  • Brown hopes to have synching from Google groups in production soon also.
  • New Home: Grouper Working Group

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Action Item: Determine How Federated Provisioning Should Work and Participate in SPML Standards Work to Support it (TomZ)

https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/ACAMPActionItems/ACAMP2010+-FederatedProvisioningAndSPMLStandards

TomB reported for TomZ:

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Action Item: Write Developers Guide to Federating Applications (ScottC)

https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/ACAMPActionItems/ACAMP2010+-WriteDevelopersGuideToFederatingApps

Scott reported:

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Action Item: Promote integration of K12 within state and national federations (TimP)

 Tim reported:

  • Conversations are ongoing on this topic
  • There are upcoming discussions with InCommon and the Dept. of Education.
  • It would be good to have support (a value proposition for K-12) from InCommon, if that is a direction InCommon wants to take.
  • There need to be enough services that are relevant to K12 or K20 to make a sound business case.

[AI]  Tim will update the wiki with more information:

https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/ACAMPActionItems/ACAMP2010+-PromoteIntegration_K12withinFederations

Additional Discussion

Q: Is it desirable to have another follow up call for these ACAMP action items in Feb. or March of 2011?

Two on the call said yes, this is desirable.  ScottC said it would not  be needed to motivate him, since time, not motivation is the limiting factor.  But it could be good to share progress in preparation for the 2011 Advance CAMP.  The consensus was that a follow-up call in early spring 2011 would be valuable.


Emily plans to send notes from this call to the ACAMP attendee list. Emily also plans a press release on the accomplishments from 2010 ACAMP.

Thank you to all ACAMP Action Item leads for the excellent work.

Plans for 2011 ACAMP

2011 Advance CAMP will be held May 25-27 at Westin Westminster just outside Denver. A program committee is being formed.

The 2011 Advance CAMP will immediately follow the Jasig Spring Conference at the same venue.

More news on the 2011 ACAMP will be forthcoming in January.

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