InCommon Steering Committee Meeting - November 4, 2019


Minutes

Attending: Marty Ringle, Brad Christ, Ann West, Dee Childs, Ted Hanss, Christine Miki, Melissa Woo, Mike Erickson, Sean Reynolds, Von Welch, Pankaj Shah, Chris Sedore, Janemarie Duh, Dave Vernon

With: Kevin Morooney

Nominations for Steering Members

According to the bylaws, Steering nominates two candidates for each open position and provides that slate to Kevin, as the representative of Internet2. He confers with Internet2 CEO Howard Pfeffer to make the final decisions. Steering can have 7-13 members, so not all slots need to be filled to meet the bylaw requirements

Four positions are open:

  • Dave Vernon completing his second term and must roll-off
  • Melissa Woo completing her second term and must roll-off
  • Marty Ringle completes a three-year term and is stepping down
  • Dee Childs completes a three-year term and is eligible for another three years

Also need to discuss the two current advisors:

  • Chris Holmes as legal advisor
  • Von Welch as research advisor

Steering Exec has met and reviewed the nominations They also looked at representation to balance the demographics of InCommon institutions (such as small colleges, research, sponsored partners, large universities), type of job responsibilities (CIOs, CISOs, other relevant functions), diversity considerations, and a gauge of the ability of the candidate to engage.

The executive committee proposed a slate for terms beginning January 1, 2020.

It was also suggested to start capturing names for terms beginning January 2021.

Marty moved, Sean seconds, unanimously approved presenting the list of candidates to Internet2. (Note that Dee Childs left the call prior to the discussion about the slate of candidates.) Ted will send an email to Kevin with the slate of candidates recommended by Steering.

Advisors

Unanimously recommended to ask Von Welch to continue as a research advisor.

Unanimously recommended discontinuing the legal advisor. 

Face-to-Face at TechEx

InCommon Steering will meet for discussions and invite the Trust/Identity PAG members to join. This will be a strategic discuss about what we can do in 2020 to underscore the InCommon value proposition, with a few considerations:

  • Addressing any questions related to the dues increase. 
  • Equipping the IAM technical advocates and CIOs with the business case to sell to Provosts, budget officers, and others of the need for investment in IAM. 
  • Positioning the work we do in this community with what the vendor offerings are, particularly in relationship to the InCommon Trusted Access Platform. Focus on interoperability and meeting the needs of the institutions

Outcome - list of things that we can prioritizing the agenda for 2020.

Kevin is working on a value proposition pitch, after a discussion on the last PAG call and will test it on the PAG. At the Global Summit meeting in Indianapolis, there are two sessions that this material will help inform - an InCommon roadmap presentation, and a session about what to consider if you are “rebooting your IAM infrastructure.”

Next Meetings

Monday, December 2, 2019, 4 pm ET / 3 pm CT / 2 pm MT / 1 pm PT

Monday, December 9, 2019 - Face-to-Face at TechEx - 3-5 pm CT


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