Overview
The Federation Readiness Check Working Group aims to develop a consistent, comprehensive, and simple to use Federation Readiness scorecard to help InCommon participants understand, implement, and validate proper federation integration practices and configurations.
Learn More: Charter for the Federation Readiness Check Working Group
A group mailing list can be found at: https://lists.incommon.org/sympa//info/fedtestwg
Work Items
The Federation Readiness Check Working Group will:
- Survey existing testing audiences and their testing needs.
- Explore current good federation practice beyond the minimums set by Baseline Expectations.
- Draft ratings guides for SPs and IdPs (in that order) with an emphasis on remote, automatic assessment.
- Produce the following work products:
- An qualitative audience survey
- Summary report of the Working Group proceedings, including any notables not included in the recommendations.
Terms
The following terms apply to all InCommon Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) Working Groups:
- When a working group is agreed, the TAC Sponsor will place a call for participation in the InCommon community.
- A chair, and optionally co-chairs, for the group is chosen from interested parties from the community.
- Internet2 provides facilities for the working group, including meeting support, wiki space, and mailing lists.
- An appropriate output from the group is produced. This is typically a working group report, proposed specifications and / or guidance documents.
- When the Working Group is in agreement, the chair shares the outputs with the wider InCommon community with an open period for discussion and comment. This is typically a period of 4 weeks, but may be longer if appropriate.
- After this period of time, TAC signs off on the work item. The InCommon Steering Committee may review, endorse, and/or approve the work item. Work is either written up as a formal white paper, left on the wiki but promoted as finished work or occasionally submitted as an Internet Draft.
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