Minutes

Attending: Matthew Brookover, Judith Bush, Janemarie Duh, Matthew Economou, Heather Flanagan, Eric Goodman, Steven Premeau, Mark Rank, Keith Wessel

With (Also Starring): David Bantz, Kevin Morooney, Nicole Roy, Dave Shafer, David Walker, Ann West, Albert Wu, Steve Zoppi

Regrets: Johnny Lasker, Mary McKee

Status Updates - Q&A

• T&I and Ops Updates
  • Issues from the Federation Manager move to AWS are being ironed out.
  • Shannon Roddy is leaving Internet2 tomorrow. If anyone knows of people who might be interested in the position, send them Nicole’s way.
  • We’re approaching 80% of entities meeting Baseline Expectations 2.
    • So remaining entities will require more work…
    • Please reach out to organizations you know that are not yet meeting BE2. The list is at https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/BE/be2-adherence-by-org; you made need to "Switch to Public View" using the hamburger icon menu at the top right of the page.
• International Update, SeamlessAccess, and Browser Changes Updates
  • Ann mentioned that there’s talk about adding R&E federation branding to SeamlessAccess interactions to indicate that an entity has been “blessed” by the R&E community.
• Working and liaison group updates - including 2021 plan items

  • Fed 2.0

  • CTAB update for TAC

  • Federation Test Working Group
    • Judith has agreed to be a co-chair and the TAC liaison for this group. The other co-chair is yet to be determined.

  • HECVAT 3.0

TAC nominations

• Nominations have closed. There was a preliminary discussion of the nominees.

Time to revisit the Discovery Service conversation 

• Albert, Mary, and Mark have been working on a draft TAC position.
• Ann showed a few slides about the branding UI.
  • Branding is wanted by various communities, including federation operators and research consortia.
  • The IdP’s federation's logo would go to the right of Seamless access logo.
  • Heather: It's not clear that users know their federation, so some people feel this doesn’t add anything for users.

IdP Migration Best Practices / SP Use of IdP Entity ID

• (We ran out of time…)

EMail Updates

International, SeamlessAccess, and Browser Interactions updates

International Update
TNC22 (13-17 June 2021, Trieste, Italy)
The Call for Proposals is open until 30 November 2021 for sessions, and until 15 February for demonstrations. Have a great idea? Please submit it! https://connect.geant.org/2021/10/12/tnc22-call-for-proposals-is-now-open

REFEDS
The REFEDS meeting generated excellent discussion, and Nicole Harris captured a summary in a blog post. A link to a recording of the meeting is included in that post.

Open Consultations

Recently Closed Consultations

• Entity Category Consultation - Personalized Entity Category - the working group has resolved all comments and the spec is read to by voted on by the REFEDS Steering Committee
• Consultation - REFEDS Strategy - Heather and Nicole are addressing the comments and will bring it to the REFEDS SC shortly
• Consultation - Federation 2.0 Report - the Federation 2.0 working group is currently working through the comments received during the consultation and will continue to meet weekly until all comments are addressed

SeamlessAccess
The product roadmap is always available to the public: https://seamlessaccess.org/services/

The WAYF Disambiguation Working Group will be publishing their first paper later this month that describes the problem space.

The Contract Language Working Group is close to releasing a template that offers language to support federation-based authentication and authorization and removes IP-based/location-based language from library subscription contracts. This contract template has been written as generically as possible so as to be usable around the world. The template is heavily based on the liblicense framework.

The UX team is focused on creating a demo site/reference implementation for SeamlessAccess as well as working towards guidance on how to signal whether an IdP will work in a given authentication/authorization workflow. The team will be meeting with Ann West this week to discuss if and how to brand a WAYF page with federation information.

Browser Interactions
Heather Flanagan will be doing an encore on Wednesday, November 10, of the "Browser Changes and the Impact on Federated Identity" session held at CAMP. More information is available on the IAM Online website: https://incommon.org/academy/webinars/

Fed 2.0

We are convening to determine responses to consultation comments.

CTAB update for TAC

I think this week’s update is pretty similar to the last one, the items are just each a little further along.

• Further discussion of the “SIRTFI Tabletop” exercise being planned (and mentioned in the last CTAB update)
• Outreach included Hannah Short, Kyle Lewis
• Discussed scoping and potential participants (both in planning and execution)
• Held another BE2 office hour (last week).
• Discussed CTAB election/nomination status and process
• Reviewed and started preliminary “docket” assignment for non-compliant BE2 organizations
• This means identifying who will contact each non-complaint BE2 org for status gathering, etc.

--- Eric

HECVAT 3.0

Hi there,

HECVAT 3.0 launched this week:

https://er.educause.edu/articles/2021/10/hecvat-3-0-launches-to-outer-space

and TAC gets a nice nod in the announcement. 😊

albert