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This continued the discussion from the Oct. 29, 2014, meeting, concerning the priorities for 2015. The list generated during the Oct. 29 meeting was split into two lists, one listing “problems” and the other listing “solutions.” The goal is to develop a shorter list to send to the Steering Programs Subcommittee to include with their priority-setting work.
The five priorities from this the "problems" list to be forwarded are:
- There is an insufficient baseline of expectations of Participants and Affiliates, and a lack of monitoring or providing feedback about this status, and insufficient tools to implement some desirable expected behaviors.
- InCommon communicates with member campuses via Central IT (whose primary concern may be interoperating with commercial SPs); however, InCommon is also serving the instructional and research communities on those campuses, and is dependent on the relationship between those groups on each campus. Consequently, InCommon is more effective at supporting commercial SPs, and less effective at supporting instructional and research SPs.
- It's still too hard for Participants to federate, including internal circumstances and implementation of federation technology
- InCommon itself is not yet sufficiently capable of adapting to its evolving environment, technologically and among other R&E Feds. (resources, prioritization, process to reach consensus).
- Federation value proposition is not well understood by members and non-members alike, or high enough for some parties. Further, InCommon’s purpose is not clearly established and understood.
The “priorities/solutions” list is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11119QJ6NmCQMMCQn0FDzTcskkTMW36kxhrqpVcjRGs4/editPlease see the Google doc for the actual wording, but the five priorities from the "priorities/solutions" list are:
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