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InCommon Technical Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes

Thursday, March 27, 2014

TAC Meeting 2014-03-27

Thursday, March 27, 2014
1:00pm ET | 12:00pm CT | 11:00am MT | 10:00am PT

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Agenda

1. Please review carryover action items
2. Status Updates
   1. FYI: Installing redirect to md.incommon.org on Monday, March 31 @ noon
   2. Status of previous I2 Middleware web site
   3. Software Guidelines have been published (ready for Community Review)
   4. Steering/Programs Comm next steps
3. DRAFT Charter: Alternative IdPs Working Group
4. DRAFT Charter: External Identities Working Group
5. Recommendations from Interfederation Working Group (John, Steve)
   1. Final Report to TAC
   2. Notes re eduGAIN Policy Framework (in particular, see the Conclusions section of the notes)
6. Proposal: Extending the Google Gateway to R&S (TomS)
7. Internet2 Global Summit
   1. DRAFT set of topics for InCommon BOF
   2. TAC meeting on Monday, April 7 @ 3--5:00 pm?
8. IAM Testbed SP/IdP (KeithH, JimJ)
9. (your agenda item here)

Informational Items

• Next TAC meeting: 2014-04-24
  • meeting 2014-04-10 CANCELED (due to Internet2 Global Summit)
• Internet2 Global Summit attendee roster
• Migration of Internet2 Google Gateway to OpenID Connect completed on March 15
• Moving the Multifactor IdP Proxy to production by March 31
  • this initial version of the MF IdP Proxy is for Internal Use Only
• Research & Scholarship activity since March 13, 2014:
  • MFA Cohortium List Manager application for R&S is pending Steering Exec decision.
  • DMP Tool application for R&S is pending Steering Exec decision. 
  • University of California San Francisco supports R&S as of March 20, 2014
  • George Mason University supports R&S as of March 21, 2014
  • Montana State University supports R&S as of March 21, 2014
• New wiki resources
  • Software Guidelines and its child page Using Other Software
  • Metadata Signing Process
• InCommon Assurance Profiles now in the IANA Profile Registry
• (your info item here)

Carryover Action Items

1. Steve Carmody will work on identifying a co-chair or technical support person for the new interfederation working group by the next TAC meeting. (6/27/2013)
2. Renee and Steven will inform Steering that Nick Roy has joined TAC, and will also schedule a conversation with Steering about handling the appointment of future new TAC members.
3. Steve Carmody will draft a wiki page outlining the steps involved in creating a category
4. Steve Carmody will communicate with Steering about discussing/voting on the proposed Service by Affiliation category.
5. John will discuss with TAC how the Google OpenID Gateway might be operated and/or funded
6. TAC will develop a recommendation for the potential necessary resources for eduGAIN implementation.
7. John will take the R&S changes to the Steering meeting on September 9.
8. Ops will craft a technical proposal for a discoverable entity attribute
9. John and Steven will review the Phase 2 Recommendations and propose to TAC a list of items that need to be addressed as a result of accepting the Recommendations
10. Steven will discuss a potential Google Apps for Education working group with the Steering Program Subcommittee and, pending the outcome, potentially bring a draft working group charter to the next TAC meeting (including estimates of the resources needed to pursue this).
11. John Krienke will distribute a list of outcomes related to the MD-Distribution recommendations
12. Dean will copy the Software Guidelines page to a public location and remove the comments.
13. Steve Carmody will update the proposed charter for the Alternative IdP Working Group and email TAC when it is ready.

Minutes

Attending: Ian Young, Steve Carmody, Jim Jokl, Nick Roy, Scott Cantor, Keith Hazelton, Tom Barton, Jim Basney, Paul Caskey, David Walker

With: Tom Scavo, IJ Kim, John Krienke, Nate Klingenstein

Action Items:

(AI) Need a TAC/community leader to shepherd the new software guidelines through the community review process

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(AI) Steve will send, on behalf of TAC, a thank-you to Warren Anderson for his efforts leading the interfederation working group

Ops Update

• Installing the metadata redirect to the new aggregate on Monday, March 31
• Software Guidelines (discussed at the last TAC meeting) are published and up for community review (public wiki). (AI) We need a TAC/community leader for this and to inform the community that these are available for review. https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/InCFederation/Software+Guidelines

Steering Program Subcommittee Planning

• at a special TAC meeting last week, a lead person/group was identified for many of the priorities. Steve C. provided that information to the program subcommittee
• the subcommittee is working on another spreadsheet that lists all of the projects and programs now underway at InCommon, with notes about status and deadlines
• goal: between now and August, develop both 2014 and 2015 priorities
• goal: develop priority-setting process for steering to use going forward
• Internet2 will launch its 2015 budget process right after the 2014 Global Summit, with drafts due April 30.

New Working Groups

Charters were approved for two new working groups:

• Alternative IdPs WG (David Walker will chair)
• External Identities WG (Paul Caskey will chair

Recommendations from Interfederation Working Group

• Final Report: https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/incinterfed/Final+Report+to+TAC
• The working group reviewed the declaration, constitution, metadata profile from eduGAIN, as did Internet2’s legal office.
• The working group recommends that InCommon sign the eduGAIN declaration. This recommendation will go to Steering. Steering will discuss on April 6.
• This will require some modifications to the InCommon FOPP and the InCommon Participation Agreement
• Once the declaration is approved, there are a number of technical issues to work through
• (AI) TAC accepted the report and asked Steve to send it to Steering with strong support for signing the eduGAIN declaration
• (AI) Steve will send, on behalf of TAC, a thank-you to Warren Anderson for his efforts
• TAC will charter a third iteration of the Interfederation WG to follow through on these recommendations

Extending the Google Gateway to R&S

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12r35O10w5DEHY75w7KQe-cqHVzq9XVu6VfiD9p8Nk7c/edit

There was discussion about this recommendation, but a number of questions about deployment. Additional thought and information is needed, so this topic was deferred to the next meeting.

Internet2 Global Summit

There is a TAC meeting on the schedule (Monday, 3-5 pm). TAC will discuss whether to meet via email.

Next Meeting

Next call is scheduled for April 10, at the tail end of the Global Summit and may be cancelled

Online Discussion

Subject lines (in chronological order) of messages to the TAC mailing list beginning on February 6:

• next steps with Steering's Programs Comm

Subject lines (in chronological order) of relevant messages to the Participants mailing list beginning on February 6:

• MFA management, Duo enhancement interest, etc. – Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2pm ET

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