InCommon TAC Meeting 2018-09-27

TAC Meeting September 27, 2018

Attending: Mark Scheible, Heather Flanagan, Matt Brookover, Janemarie Duh, Eric Goodman, Eric Kool-Brown, Keith Wessel, Albert Wu, Mike Grady

With: Ian Young, Dean Woodbeck, Nick Roy, David Walker, IJ Kim, David Shafer, Steve Zoppi, Shannon Roddy

Regrets: Judith Bush, Ann West,

Action Items

• All TAC Members: Review the current responses and propose any further responses to the FIM4R paper by COB Tuesday, October 2.

• Nick Roy - Sync up with Tom Barton regarding Campus Champions and the potential for a TAC member from that group.

Ops Update

• The latest release of the Federation Manager deleted all reference to the POP. The next release will have a function to automatically approve some metadata changes.

• Making progress on MDQ deployment. The goal to launch a test environment before TechEx

• Nick and Shannon presented to REN-ISAC today on federation security (recording is available only to REN-ISAC members)

Trust and Identity Update

• Kevin and Ann are at a series of meetings this week, including the "EAGER" workshop, the Quilt, and the Common Solutions Group
  

• We plan to begin a Steward pilot of eduroam with the Utah Education Network.
  

• Albert Wu is starting as federation service manager on Monday, October 1.
  

• James Babb is starting as Level 2 support person a week from Monday, October 8.

International Update

• OpenID Foundation has approved a research and education working group. https://github.com/daserzw/oidc-edu-wg/blob/v1.0.0/charter.md

• There is an RA21 governance planning meeting at TechEx; attendees include GÉANT, Internet2, (tentatively) ORCID, and leadership from the RA21 project,
  

Working Group Updates

• OIDC Deployment - At the last WG meeting, Roland talked about progress on the federation spec. Andreas also has a draft of a spec and the two are now working to consolidate those.

• Deployment Profile 

• WG is ramping down and working on the final report, to be presented by the end of the calendar year.

• The WG discussed the logo requirements for SAML2int and backed out some of the recommendations. They plan to approach REFEDS about a working group concerning logo requirements. RA21 is also looking at logo requirements and will make a recommendation.

• REFEDS Federation 2.0 - No update.

FIM4R Report Responses

• Heather and Keith proposed a TAC response to the report (see draft response, columns M and N). A summary:

  • Need a research representative on TAC

  • Create an SP/Research focused WG to provide a place to discuss those issues

  • Intra-campus communication and delegation of control to campus departments and VOs needs to be prioritized. This would also apply to libraries.

  • Consider adding SIRTFI as a requirement for Baseline Expectations

• TAC is being asked to review the current responses and propose any further responses by COB Tuesday, October 2.

• Goal is to have a FIM4R response written for TechEx

Potential topics for Face-to-Face at TechEx

• TAC will meet Wednesday at lunch (12:10-1:40)

• Nominations slate and recruiting at TechEx

• Chair and co-chair potentials

• IdP as a Service WG

• Other items for a work plan

• TAC members - consider other items that would be best done face-to-face vs. a call

Nominees slate

• Please make any nominations on the wiki. Also start thinking about potential chair and co-chair
  

• Nominations email will go out on October 1 - to participants list and maybe the EDUCAUSE IdM list

• TAC members should consider their cohorts for potential nominees

• Particularly research-oriented

• Also security role

• Check with campus champions group (research) (AI - Nick sync up with Tom Barton)

Value of Federation

• Recent email thread

• Where does federation fit with respect to commercial IdP products (Google, Azure, AD, etc). Where does InCommon fit and what value do we provide that vendors don’t?

• Layer on top of SAML, OIDC, etc?

• Will impact future work

• Will be on the next agenda

Next Meeting - October 11, 2018 - 1 pm ET