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- identifying interested CACTI members and/or other interested parties to work on a eduroam TAC charter.
- MikeZ: there is a need for eduroam advisory body. This is not so technical, it’s a way to engage with the community around business operations, contractual questions,
- Currently eduroam engagement with the community has been ad hoc, want something more formal, especially as we look at eduroam k12 deployments
- A first step may be development of a charter
- Draft charter can help provide a framewor
- Next Steps AI (MikeZ, NickR, Rob Carter) discuss drafting eduroam TAC charter
Additional discussion - NickR: InCommon has It was noted that InCommon has Steering Committee as top level and TAC under that.
- For eduroam, we need one group to provide some of both, being be both the policy and technical advisory group. Needs to be cross cutting.
- Historical perspective: The founding InCommon TAC drove architecture, wrote the FOP, Federation Operating Practices.
- This new eduroam body would report to CACTI and then to the PAG?
Kevin: it may depend on the types of issues being tackled - Important to involve some networking people in the eduroam TAC, this can be specified in the eduroam TAC charter
- Eduroam is perceived to be static service, but things , strategic and technical that are happening in the wireless space that require need for change.
- It was noted that campuses running eduroam IdPs also need to support users in setting up their devices
- Glimpse of what EU confederation does (note, this is a group of 28 countries, not just one):
- https://www.eduroam.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/GN3-12-192_eduroam-policy-service-definition_ver28_26072012.pdf
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