Trust and Identity Program Advisory Group Meeting - April 8, 2019
Roster
Mike Erickson
Ted Hanss
Klara Jelinkova
Mark Johnson
John O'Keefe
Laura Paglione
Chris Phillips
Sean Reynolds
Klaas Wierenga
Attending: Mike Erickson, Ann West, Laura Paglione, Chris Phillips, Kevin Morooney, Ted Hanss, Mark Johnson, Klaas Wierenga, Sean Reynolds
Fee Increase Update
- Kevin presented on this at the Internet2 board meeting. No concerns. The only question was whether it is enough.
- InCommon Steering started voting on the fee change to be completed at 5 pm PDT today. Things look overwhelmingly supportive.
- Results will be communicated to Steering. Next steps will be developing a plan for communicating to the community (InCommon Execs and InCommon Participants email lists, and elsewhere).
- Discussion about the Internet2 fee change coming and that we are keeping communications about these two increases segregated
FIM4R
Chris Phillips (CACTI chair) joined the call to discuss CACTI's gap analysis of the FIM4Rv2 paper.
CACTI focused on areas on which we are likely to be able to impact:
- What can NRENS do?
- What can home organizations do?
- What can R&E Federations do?
Priority recommendations
- Invest in areas that support Collaboration-as-a-Service
- Support must include both services and underlying infrastructure
- Specifically
- Support CILogon as a critical service.
- Establish TIER packaging default settings and profiles that support easy use of CoManage and CILogon
- Invest in the capacity to deliver production-level federation trust in next generation trust protocols, specifically OIDC Federation
Increase alignment with research needs
- Formalize annual assessment of tools and services
- Creation of "Best Community Practices” (BCP) and tools to implement them
- Improve channels of communication and advocacy
- Foster partnerships between the researcher community and IAM professionals
- Actively cultivate expertise and in-house knowledge of these solutions and BCPs in the field
Improve research representation at all levels of governance and advisory groups
Delivering on the recommendations
- Maintain keen eye on sustainability and supporting behaviors:
- CACTI to help facilitate a single Internet2 T&I roadmap by mid-2019.
- Identify one time activities to be annualized to reduce effort
- Specifically:
- Coordinate to maximize benefits by engaging with:
- Cloud providers
- Campuses
- Federal funding agencies
- Global peers (GEANT, NRENS, REFEDS)
- US with national platform projects eg: Science Gateways, Globus
- Continue to seek more partnerships with:
What’s Next?
- Focus on Trust and Identity roadmap for 2019
- Already in progress starting with TAC roadmap planning
- Act on recommendations
- Improving sustainment practices
- Assist improving communication between TAC, CTAB, TIER Architects and other partners
- Engage with REFEDS, GÉANT, and other communities
CACTI Gap FIM4R Assessment https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/TI/TI.112.1
There was discussion about identifying and conducting outreach with relevant organizations, particularly in research computing. One such group is CARCC (carcc.org) and a related group is CASC (casc.org). How do we get connected with that group? One of the issues is the number of organizations that exist - identifying the right organizations and an engagement effort around those.
For Internet2 trust/identity, the focus is on engaging the campus champions, who help researchers on campus, as well as connecting with CASC (research computing centers). Gail Krovitz, Tom Barton, Duncan Brown, and Ann West have been involved in developing a strategy.