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TAC Meeting 2016-02-04

Thursday, February 4, 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 2016-01-28

3. New and returning TAC members

   1. Introduction of new TAC members:

      1. Janemarie Duh, Lafayette College
      2. Walter Hoehn, University of Memphis
      3. Kim Milford, REN-ISAC
      4. Tom Mitchell, BBN/GENI project
      5. Mark Scheible, MCNC
      6. Albert Wu, UCLA
   2. Returning TAC members:
      1. Tom Barton, University of Chicago
      2. Scott Cantor, Ohio State University
      3. Steven Carmody, Brown University
      4. Michael Gettes, Penn State University
      5. Keith Hazelton, University of Wisconsin-Madison
      6. Jim Jokl, University of Virginia
      7. Chris Misra, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

4. Ops Update 2016-02-04

5. Brief items and updates

   1. Current time for bi-weekly conference call OK with everyone ?

   2. Public Review opens - SAML V2.0 Implementation Profile for Federation Interoperability (Walter)

   3. Status Update – TIER Packaging (Jim)
   4. Launch of REFEDS IoLR / Un-Affiliated IdP WG. Mailing list subscription link on the wiki page.
   5. Recent DUO interruption – any action to initiate ?
6. Next Steps with New Year Kickoff
   1. Electing officers 
      1. Defined in the new Charter – Chair and Vice-Chair, one year terms, can repeat
      2. Process ?
      3. 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). "
   2. Subject Matter Experts (as mentioned in the TAC Charter )
      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 ?
7. TAC Transparency
   1. Carryover item – how to achieve this ?
   2. (one suggestion) New Mailing lists – 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."
8. 2016 Priorities
   1. 2015 Priorities
   2. Poll results from recent Webinar
9. (your agenda item here)

Carryover Action Items

1. 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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

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

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

10. 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.

11. 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.

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

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

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

Minutes

Attending: Steve Olshansky, Steve Carmody, Ian Young, Jim Jokl, Tom Barton, David Walker, Keith Hazelton, Tom Mitchell, Janemarie Duh, Chris Misra, Walter Hoehn, Albert Wu

With: Nick Roy, Tom Scavo, IJ Kim, Ann West, Kevin Morooney, Mike LaHaye, Steve Zoppi

Not Attending: Mark Scheible, Michael Gettes, Kim Milford

Minutes Review

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

Introductions of staff for new TAC members:

Kevin Morooney, VP for Trust and Identity, Internet2
Steve Zoppi, AVP Services Integration & Architecture, Internet2
Ann West, AVP Trust and Identity, Internet2
Nick Roy, Dir. Technology and Strategy, InCommon
Mike LaHaye, Director of Technical Services, Internet2
IJ Kim, Software and Integration, TSG, Internet2
Tom Scavo, Ops Manager, InCommon

Discussion of TAC logistics - minutes/agenda/collaborative note-taking

Ops update - prep for eduGAIN rollout, numbers/stats associated with the go-live, update on communications around metadata import policy

Check-in on timing of TAC call - works for all attendees present

Update on Fed Interop Implementation profile community comment period - no feedback from outside the WG to date

Update on TIER Packaging  - getting through survey results and into describing execution environments for TIER components

Discussion of Duo Security DUO1 outage on 2/2/2016 - (AI) Steve Carmody will follow up with spinning up documentation around Duo deployment best practices, may be homed in MFA interop WG

Election of Chair and Vice-Chair - info on the process the AAC uses (vice chair is alternate during their first year, and then step into chair duties the next year). The AAC sends chair and vice-chair proposals to Steering for approval.  (AI) All voting members: send nominations to Ann West (awest@internet2.edu) and Dean Woodbeck (woodbeck@internet2.edu).

(Other agenda items deferred for discussion on the next call)

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