CTAB Call Tuesday November 29, 2022

 Attending

  • David Bantz, University of Alaska (chair)
  • Jon Miner, University of Wisc - Madison (co-chair) 
  • Pål Axelsson, SUNET 
  • Ercan Elibol, Florida Polytechnic University 
  • Richard Frovarp,  North Dakota State 
  • Mike Grady, Liaison from CACTI to CTAB  
  • Eric Goodman, UCOP - InCommon TAC Representative to CTAB 
  • Andy Morgan, Oregon State University 
  • Chris Whalen, Research Data and Communication Technologies 
  • Tom Barton, Internet2, ex-officio 
  • Johnny Lasker, Internet2 
  • Albert Wu, Internet2 
  • Andrew Scott, Internet2 


Regrets

  • Dave Robinson, Grinnell College in Iowa, InCommon Steering Rep, ex-officio
  • Rick Wagner, UCSD
  • Meshna Koren, Elsevier
  • Jule Ziegler,  Leibniz Supercomputing Centre
  • Robert Zybeck, Portland Community College
  • Kevin Morooney, Internet2
  • Ann West, Internet2

Discussion

Working group / Committee liaison reports

  • InCommon TAC
    • Focused on identifying any special considerations for proxies and proxy-like things in federations.
    • There will be a session on Wednesday: “Rise of Middlethings”; we hope to inspire further discussion during ACAMP sessions
    • Collection of thoughts from TAC on the potential role of InCommon related to supporting/providing value in the Distributed IDentity space.
    • Goal is to turn the ongoing learnings and discussion into more concrete workplan items.
    • Reviewed election/chair election status
    • Discussed and reviewed “SP Middlethings” report 
    • Reviewed comments to date re “Wallet Brainstorming” 

  • Security Exercise Planning WG:   
    • SIRTFI Tabletop Exercise 
    • The exercise is complete, some lessons learned, report and recommendations to be developed.
    • Potentially there should be an annual exercise, or perhaps more frequent, smaller activities.
    • Andrew Scott of Internet2 will be resource moving forward

  • REFEDS Assurance
    • Finalizing and working towards a presentation 
    • Effort is primarily to clarify existing REFEDs Assurance Framework
    • Unsupervised remote / automation for identity proofing is a potential add on to the existing framework

CTAB election & recommendations to InCommon Steering for approval

  • Finalize CTAB slate for InCommon Steering approval
    • Emails have been sent to those being asked to serve on CTAB, most have confirmed they will be pleased to serve
    • Note there are 14 CTAB members on this slate, and CTAB charter officially allows for 13.
    • CTAB Charter http://doi.org/10.26869/TI.94.1
    • So this is an exception, to have 14 CTAB members
    • Tom Barton, who helped write the CTAB charter, noted that this can be flexible
    • Question about staggering the CTAB terms,
      • consensus that it's OK to keep CTAB terms as they are
    • Albert reported that David Bantz and Jon Miner were reelected as chair and vice chair respectively
      • Thank you to David and Jon for stepping up to continued leadership 

Baseline Expectations v2 closing updates

  • CTAB received unanimous official InCommon Steering endorsement of actions proposed 
    • These were revised proposals based on earlier feedback from InCommon Steering.
  • There are some entities slate for removal (un-publishing from the InCommon Federation) on Dec 12. 
  • Some of these entities have indicated they intended to withdraw from the InCommon Federation in any case.
  • SIRTFI
    • There are about 100 entities that have not indicated adherence with SIRTFI framework. 
    • We will communicate / reengage with them in January 2023
    • David noted that our handling of the SIRTFI Baseline Expectation requirement is something of a compromise between CTAB and InCommon Steering
  • There are IDPs that have not yet met baseline, but have let us know they are working on it.
    • They will not be removed as long as they are working and communicating with us
  • InCommon operations will look again in 2023 at entities with no SSL encryption scores, or scores of B
    • Likely tracking the scores over time
  • Question: what about periodically testing contacts in metadata?
  • Albert: this will be a focus for InCommon Operations in 2023, also testing for other required elements, such as privacy URL

  • Tom suggests that CTAB communicate with InCommon Steering in 2023 about the big picture around Baseline Expectations


  CTAB at 2022 TechEx 

  • Albert will make reservations for the CTAB dinner
  • Presentation - "Increasing Trust and Assurance in InCommon" (Wednesday, 12/7 8AM MST) 
    • SPs intended for many, few, or 1 IdP
    • SPs behind proxies or “middle things”
    • IdPs from 10**2 to 10**6 users
    • Federation operators in REFEDS
    • Assurance (MFA, IAL, …)
    • Attribute standardization / entity categories
    • Profiles
    • BE (every entity must…)?
    • Tiers or badges (these entities do…)?
    • Best Practices codification / promotion (if you need X, do Y)?
    • Integration services/recipes from Federation or others?
    • Fixing the Problems of Attribute Release: Wed 12/6 11:20 AM

  • Assurance in Action: Wed 12/6 11:20 AM 
  • The Rise of Middlethings: Wed 12/6 2:40 PM
    • Making it Sticky: Offering Shared Services via InCommon Glue: Wed 12/6 4 PM
    • Baseline Expectations as a pyramid of increasing value (utility/scalability) of InC to participants; BE2 security expectations ~95% compliance
      (SIRTFI, TLS, errorURL)
    • What practices, standards, would make federated access simultaneously easiest and most trusted access to resources?
    • Perspectives from 
    • Possible areas for increased value:
    • Mechanisms to promote increased value:
    • Related Sessions at TechEx


Next CTAB Call: Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022

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