AIs From 2017-03-02 call
(AI) TAC members are asked to review the document regarding TIER and potential changes to Shibboleth and see if there is anything that should be added.
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(AI) David Walker will follow up with the OIDC Survey working group regarding a community review of their report and the possibility of scheduling a webinar.
Minutes
TAC Members Attending: Mark Scheible, Keith Wessel, Janemarie Duh, Mike Grady, Eric Goodman, Tom Barton, Kim Milford, Jim Jokl
Others Attending: Dean Woodbeck, Nick Roy, Kevin Morooney, Tom Scavo, David Walker, Steve Zoppi, IJ Kim, Paul Caskey, Ann West
Action Items 3/16/2017
(AI) TAC members are asked to review on comment on the wiki page documenting the proposed new policy for IdP endpoint locations.
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(AI) Mark Scheible and Dean Woodbeck will begin slide development and consider topics for polls for the March 22 webinar.
Minutes from March 2, 2017, are approved and are published
Ops Update
https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/inctac/Ops+Update+2017-03-16
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The new policy means that the InCommon RA would no longer verify domains in endpoint locations in either IdP metadata or SP metadata.The InCommon RA will continue to verify domains in entityIDs in both IdP metadata and SP metadata, and will continue to verify Scopes in IdP metadata. (AI) Tom Scavo will develop documentation related to SP endpoint locations and expects to have that ready for the March 30 TAC meeting.
Incident: Multiple Attempts to Publish Metadata on March 10 - Tom Scavo reported on this incident, which involved eduGAIN operations altering the order of entities in eduGAIN metadata. This caused a 40MB DIFF file being published, which uncovered the bug. InCommon published three signed aggregates on March 10. See: Incident Report 2017-03-10
Trust and Identity Update
There are three open job positions in Internet2 Trust and Identity. Status: Developing hiring teams for each.
There is a trust and identity architects meeting in Denver next week.
TAC Email List Discussion
Proposal: Create a technical-discuss@incommon.org list for technical discussions and to request and take feedback on various topics. TAC members will be subscribed to the list and will be expected to seed topics requiring community discussion. The TAC work plan may be the first topic. The list will also be a place to announce when TAC minutes become public.
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(AI) Mark Scheible and Brett Beiber (chairs of TAC and AAC) will jointly announce the creation of the technical-discuss email list.
TIIME Conference
There was a short discussion of the synopses of the TIIME conference provided by Tom Barton and Nick Roy. It was noted that a number of the issues discussed at the conference align with the TAC work plan. There was also a short discussion about the merits of considering “IdP as a Service,” with the Australian federation’s “rapid connect” as a possible model.
TAC Work Plan
Work plan items and TAC people who are interested in either leading or contributing to those items are:
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(AI) Mark Scheible and Dean Woodbeck will begin slide development and consider topics for polls.
Global Summit F2F Planning
TAC will meet at the Global Summit (Monday, April 24 - 8:30 - 10 am). The tentative agenda includes:
- Round-robin - TAC and staff responsibilities
- Metadata import filtering strategy (Tom Barton)
- TAC 2018 membership process
- Terms
- Is there an expectation of vice chair becoming chair?
- Are there concrete steps for chair succession?
- Is a one-year term long enough for a chair?
- Think about candidates for TAC membership
- Review of TAC charter - changes needed? Revisit term limits?
- Review community input on work plan
- Session at 2017 TechEx to solicit feedback on the work plan for 2018
Next Meeting - Thursday, March 30 - 1 pm ET