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TAC Meeting 2016-01-28

Thursday, January 28, 2016
1:00pm ET | 12:00pm CT | 11:00am MT | 10:00am PT

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Agenda

1. Review carryover action items below

2. Acceptance of minutes from TAC Meeting 2016-01-07 and 2016-01-21

3. TAC Membership - continue discussion from last week
   
   1. Nominee Summary
   2. Next steps:
      1. Develop list of recommended new members
      2. Send names of recommended new members AND the full list of nominations to Steering
      3. ? Do we need to explain why we chose these people ?
      4. ? Should we forward our thinking about Contractors as members of TAC ?
   3. Develop list of new SME members
      1. Do we send this list to Steering ? as recommendations ?
4. Subject Matter Experts
   1. are they "members of TAC" (but just non-voting) ?
   2. discuss governance – develop some rules and framework governing the set of SMEs. term length? yearly renewal ?
   3. conflict of interest policy ?
5. TAC Officers
   1. Defined in the new Charter – Chair and Vice-Chair, one year terms, can repeat
   2. Process ?
      1. Process used by Steering – After new members join – "Nominations are open by sending a note to Ann West (awest@internet2.edu) or Dean Woodbeck (woodbeck@internet2.edu) prior to next week’s call (close of business January 28). "
6.  Charter for new Standing OPS Group
   1. volunteers to develop DRAFT ?
7. Results of Jan 27 Webinar poll
   1. Chat room (minus the discussion of BBQ at MCNC  )
   2. Poll Results
      1. Poll 1
      2. Poll 2 (items suggested by attendees)
   3. ? Develop Charter for "Migration from IDP v2 to v3 without breaking interop" 
8. New Mailing Lists
   1. Jim Basney – "Create a public email list. We VO folks will join it and provide our perspectives. It will be more effective than relying on a single person to represent all VO perspectives in closed TAC discussions."
9. (your agenda item here)

Poll 1

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Poll 2

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Items Suggested by Attendees

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Carryover Action Items

1. Steve Carmody will draft a wiki page outlining the steps involved in creating a category
2. John Krienke will implement a policy review regarding whether SP registration of keys could be made optional. <= Ann West will review and determine whether to keep this on the list
3. Steve, Ann, Dean and Michael will draft a proposal to address TAC member responsibilities, TAC transparency, and related processes.

4. Steve Carmody will send email looking for a chair for the MD Distribution WG

5. Tom Barton will develop a WG charter re: how to coordinate incident response

6. Paul Caskey will take charge of the goal “Making Federation Easier”

7. Steven Carmody and Michael Gettes will develop a short white paper to document the requirements and goals related to attribute release.

8. Those on the TAC call voted to accept the External Identities WG report. Steve Carmody will send email to the TAC list asking for confirmation from those not on the call, and also include information about next steps.

9. Ann West will develop a service-level agreement concerning the IdP of Last Resort for Leif Johannson and UnitedID

10. Steve Zoppi, Steve Carmody, and Paul Caskey will come back to TAC in two weeks with a proposal concerning "making Shib easier;" specifically about how to leverage work already done through TIER to attract schools and individuals willing to commit to development help.

11. Tom Scavo will ensure that “per-entity metadata” is in the 2016 TAC work plan.

12. Tom Barton will sketch some comments about how to approach the proposed draft TAC charter.

13. TAC is asked to provide feedback on the draft charter for the Containerization/East of Deployment Working Group and ensure that it meets the needs of the federation.

14. Tom Barton will develop a recommendation as to whether the TAC working group chartering process would be a useful process for developing a containerization working group in conjunction with TIER.

15. Steve Carmody will talk with those who brought the containerization WG concept to TAC and seek a tighter scoping of the concept.

16. Tom Barton will talk with Chris Hyzer about potentially participating in a containerization working group.

17. Keith will submit an item for the REFEDS 2016 work plan concerning portability of IDs as part of IdPs of last resort.

18. Tom Scavo will run a comparison of the 47 SAML1-only SPs in the InCommon with the SAML1-only SPs currently in eduGAIN metadata.

19. Dean will contact each current TAC member to determine their interested in continuing, as well a whether they have a preference for either a one- or two-year term. TAC members should not feel pressure to remain on TAC. Dean will report back to TAC by January 20.

20. David will send the list of nominations to TAC by the end of the day January 20.

Minutes

Attending: Michael Gettes, Steve Olshansky, Steve Carmody, Ian Young, Scott Cantor, Jim Jokl, Tom Barton, Jim Basney, David Walker, Keith Hazelton

With: Dean Woodbeck, Nick Roy, Tom Scavo, IJ Kim, Paul Caskey, Ann West

Minutes Review

Approved minutes from Jan 7, 2016, and Jan. 21, 2016.

TAC Membership

The discussion continued about TAC membership and the new TAC members. It was agreed that this meeting would focus only on developing a list of voting members to send to Steering for approval. The list to Steering will include:

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Steve Carmody will contact the six new members about joining TAC and will report on whether he receives positive responses from each. If he does, he will forward the list as a recommendation to Steering for the February 1, 2016, Steering meeting. When sending the list to Steering, he will include a note about TAC having worked to broaden community representation with the new members.

TAC Officers

TAC will elect new officers after the new members join (tentatively Feb. 4)

Standing Ops TAC Working Group

Steve Carmody will recruit one or more TAC members to draft a charter for this WG.

IAM Online - Jan. 27

This IAM Online included several working group reports and a summary from the TAC’s work in 2015.

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The second highest number of votes supported work on deploying user consent for attribute release.

Next Meeting - Feb. 4, 2016