CACTI call of Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Attending
Members
- Chris Phillips, CANARIE (chair)
- Marina Adomeit, GEANT
- Warren Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee /LIGO
- Tom Barton, University of Chicago
- Rob Carter, Duke
- Jessica Coltrin, Portland State University, liaison from InCommon TAC
- Nathan Dors, U Washington
- Jill Gemmill, Clemson
- Karen Herrington, Virginia Tech
- Todd Higgins, Franklin & Marshall College
- Tom Jordan, University of Wisc - Madison
- Les LaCroix, Carleton College
Internet2
- Kevin Morooney
- Ann West
- Steve Zoppi
- Nick Roy
- Emily Eisbruch
- Mike Zawacki
Regrets
- Christos Kanellopoulos, GEANT
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New Action Items from this call
AI (Mike, Nick, Rob) work more on tuning the eAC charter to clarify value concept.
Discussion
Reminders/longer term
- Slide deck for value proposition for research for the Trusted Access Platform (Jill and Ann)
- Need to work with Keith Hazelton and David Bantz to finalize the Sunset doc and submit it to Doc Repository (Emily’s update: will do this by next CACTI call)
TAC Workplan update from Jessica Coltrin
- https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/inctac/InCommon+TAC+2019+Work+Plan
- Topics in the TAC Workplan include REFEDs, OIDC, RA21, FIM4R recommendations
- Badging
- TBD, being defined and determined
- Net+ program advisory group has a badging white paper group, with 5 institutions represented, there are various perspectives, including accessibility, security, InCommon elements; just getting going,
- REN ISAC is also looking at badging https://www.ren-isac.net/
- There is a Venn diagram of badging activities. Needs to be closely tracked
- Badge such as “R&S Ready”
- Looking at W3C guidelines around accessibility and grading
- Will there be a working group for this badging activity?
- Badging could involve some self attestation and some operational steps
- Kevin:
- Australian access federation did a scoring activity a few years back.
- TAC is also looking at onboarding and addressing some communication gaps
- Regarding the Deployment Profile WG, that just completed its work, there is a plan to follow up with an R&E profile
- Test InCommon Federation, is this to replace InQueue? Not entirely. Strong intention to avoid some known potential pitfalls of test areas.
Main Business
- eduroam-US advisory committee charter process (Mike Z, Rob C, Nick R)
- The charter drafters received feedback from CACTI and modified the eAC charter.
- Regarding the name, there was concern that naming this the “eduroam TAC” could be confusing with differentiating from InCommon TAC.
- Therefore, rebranded eduroam TAC to eduroam Advisory Committee (eAC)
- Suggestion that it could be too detailed to put specific technology names such as Slack in charter. Agreed.
- Should we clarify in charter if vice chair becomes the next chair of eAC?
- Decided to follow pattern established by InCommon TAC charter, that is not 100% explicit about vice chair becoming next chair.
- Reporting structure for eAC
- There was discussion of where eAC should report to: CACTI versus Internet2 InCommon Trust and Identity Management
- It originally was assumed by the drafters of the eAC charter that since CACTI is chartering eAC, this reporting to CACTI made sense
- However, reporting could go up through CACTI and to the Internet2/InCommon Trust and Identity Management
- eAC will be a Service advisory committee
- There is Trust and Identity Program Advisory Group (PAG) in the advisory structure, that could be seen as “above” eduroam US ; It may be helpful to mention the Trust and Identity PAG in the charter.
- Agreed that we start with eAC reporting through CACTI to Kevin; that could change later.
- VALUE for eAC
- Currently there may be variations on understandings of what the eAC is supposed to do, and this should be clarified
- Regarding who benefits from the work of the eAC, this was discussed on Slack as the charter was being worked on.
- Hope that the work on eduroam US will also benefit international eduroam
- The value as specified in the charter may need more refinement
- Want to be sure the community derives excellent value from the service and perhaps this should be stressed
- AI (Mike Nick Rob) work more on tuning the eAC charter to clarify value concept.
- Process after next version of draft charter is ready and reviewed by CACTI
- InCommon participants list, and
- eduroam connectors list.
- There will be a community consultation period for the eAC charter, this will help socialize the eAC charter.
- Target the community consultation on the eAC charter to
- Chris P will send out the notice of Community Consultation when the time is right
Website News
- Internet2 Trust and Identity and InCommon website changes are coming. Consolidation under InCommon.org
- InCommon is become an Internet2 trust and identity brand name
- For next CACTI call: Ann will review new web site with CACTI, send URL to CACTI when it’s ready.
Topics Saved for a Future Call
- Prospective members - building a list and recruitment
- Web authentication (Fido/W3C Webauthn) (Rob)
- Status Updates
- Close-out of MACE-DIR transition to REFEDS
- URN registry transfer - status
- Finalize sunset doc - status
- Topics being tracked
- Build on last meetings outcomes focusing on the 5 areas we highlighted :
- infrastructure, services to end users, software dev, infrastructure as a service, and outreach and education
- Focus of conversation: to identify high priority items/quick wins in the above areas
- Continue prioritizing CACTI FIM4R recommendations (Chris/Jill)
- ID Pro (Chris has next touch point)
Next Call: Tuesday, June 11, 2019