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InCommon Steering Committee Meeting - January 5, 2015

Dial-in Coordinates

(734) 615-7474, or
(866) 411-0013
PIN: 0139418#

Agenda

  1. Action Items
    1. Approve minutes
      1. December 1, 2014
  2. Welcome new members:
    1.  Michele Norin
    2. Sean Reynolds
    3. Pankaj Shah
  3. Information Items
    1. Ann West approved as InCommon Operations Manager by 2/3 vote. Vote recorded via e-mail. Ann is the Operations Manager per bylaws.
    2. Jacob Farmer assumes chair of Assurance Advisory Committee. The AAC will be recommending a Vice Chair for 2015. Thank you Steve Devoti for your leadership in 2014.
  4. Officers for 2015: Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, Ass't Secretary, Treasurer. Subcommittee co-chairs for ERG and Programs.
  5. Subcommittee Reports
    1. External Relations and Governance
    2. Programs
  6. Discussion items
    1. Statement on "relaxed" attribute release policies (proposed by Steve Carmody)

Minutes

Attending: Klara Jelinkova, Sean Reynolds, Dave Vernon, Michael Gettes, Susan Kelly, Steve Carmody, Dennis Cromwell, Jacob Farmer, Chris Holmes, Sean Reynolds, Ken Klingenstein, Michele Morin, Mark Crase, Meliisa Woo, Pankaj Shah

With: Shel Waggener, Ann West, Steve Zoppi, Dean Woodbeck

Moved/Seconded/Approved minutes from December 1

Action Items

  1. Ann West, Steve Carmody, and Jacob Farmer will develop a proposed recommendation for Steering to adopt concerning the release of directory information, to be presented at the February Steering meeting.
  2. Steve Carmody will talk with Von Welch and develop a list of prominent R1 institutions yet to adopt R&S. Steve and Von will present this list and a recommended approach at the February Steering meeting.
  3. On a future call, Steering will discuss the potential for changing the InCommon Participation Agreement to directly address the question of attribute release.

New members

Welcome to Michele Norin (University of Arizona), Sean Reynolds (Northwestern University), and Pankaj Shah (OARnet).

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Did a round-robin of steering members to introduce themselves.

InCommon Operations Manager

Ann West was approved as InCommon Operations Manager by a 2/3 vote (via email vote).

Subcommittee Reports

No subcommittee reports at this time. Michael will distribute the summary of the Program Subcommittee to the Steering email list. Subcommittee rosters will be finalized in February

Attribute Release Policies

Steve Carmody discussed the progress of the Research & Scholarship category, which has more than 100 IdPs participating, but also the concern that 30-35 key campuses have not adopted the category and its attribute release requirements. Because of this, research services cannot be confident that all of their researchers and scientists can use federated access and are turning to other alternatives (like Google).

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(AI) On a future call, Steering will discuss the potential for changing the InCommon Participation Agreement to directly address the question of attribute release.

Next Meeting – Monday, February 2, 2015 – 4 pm ET / 3 pm CT / 2 pm MT / 1 pm PT

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