InCommon Steering Committee Meeting Minutes
March 2, 2015
Attending: John O’Keefe, Dennis Cromwell, Klara Jelinkova, Chris Holmes, Steve Carmody, Pankaj Shah, Sean Reynolds, Susan Kelley, Michele Norin, Mark Crase, Jacob Farmer
With: Ann West, Mark Johnson (MCNC), Shel Waggener
Approval of Minutes
Moved and seconded to approve the minutes from January 5, 2015. Passed unanimously.
Moved and seconded to approve the minutes from February 2, 2015. Passed unanimously.
Steering Subcommittees
Klara provided background on Steering’s use of subcommittees last year to address the need to set priorities (Program Subcommittee) and outreach and changes to the governance documents (External Relations and Governance Subcommittee, or ERG).
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Formal appointments to the ERG Subcommittee will be made at the April Steering meeting. In the meantime, members from last year will address issues/proposals from staff and the community. They are Klara Jelinkova, John O’Keefe, Chris Holmes, and Dennis Cromwell.
Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG)
IDESG was created as part of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) created by President Obama in 2011 (www.idecosystem.org). It is a private-public partnership to develop an identity ecosystem framework. Jack Suess has been serving as the representative from research and education. The 2015 election will take place March 18-24. Jack has agreed to stand for election and InCommon will encourage its participants to join the IDESG and vote for Jack. https://www.idecosystem.org/content/2015-idesg-election-schedule
In the fall, Steering will discuss IDESG representation for 2016.
Attribute Release Policy
Ann and Steve Carmody are developing a policy to recommend to Steering concerning attribute release. They are considering two approaches. One would have InCommon recommend and actively work to have all identity providers release a small set of attributes to all service providers, with the objective of streamlining user access. The other approach is to redouble efforts on Research & Scholarship Category adoption by IdPs. The proposal will be ready for the April Steering meeting.
In addition, Von Welch has identified a number of colleges and universities that are key for R&S adoption. Ann and Von will be discussing a plan for approaching these partners.
Scaling for K12 and Community Colleges
Ann provided an overview of the work done by InCommon and MCNC during the past year to develop a partnership aimed at making it more streamlined and more affordable for K12 and community colleges to join InCommon. She brought a proposal that Steering approve a new category of participant, Support Consortium. This would add to the current three types of participants (higher education, research organization and sponsored partner).
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It was moved/seconded/unanimously approved to approve the pilot fee of $19,000 for MCNC for the 2015 calendar year.
New InCommon Staff Positions
There are two new InCommon staff positions posted by Internet2. If Steering members would like to be involved in the hiring process for either, please email Ann West.