Trust and Identity Program Advisory Group Meeting - March 6, 2019
InCommon Proposed Fee Change
Kevin provided a recap on the communications/outreach on the proposed InCommon fee change. A webinar was held in January (about 115 attended), then open office hours were held weekly for the next four weeks. Not many attended the office hours and few questions were received. The FAQ continued to develop over that time frame. Kevin and Mike Erickson met with the WestNet CIOs and need to provide answers to a couple of questions. As a summary, it seems that most understand the problem statement and the proposed change.
There was discussion about the communication to date and future plans. Once InCommon Steering has approved the change, communications will come from that body, via its chair, Ted Hanss. A redeveloped incommon.org website will help people understand the value and benefits of InCommon.
InCommon Steering meets March 11 and again on April 1. They will finalize the language of the resolution for the fee change on April 1, then vote via email on April 8. Communications to InCommon execs and InCommon participants will follow.
InCommon Support and Learning Program
Ann West provided an overview of the plans for a greatly expanded InCommon education and learning program. Some of the feedback from TIER adopters and the Campus Success Program participants was the need for case studies to understand how to adopt. The presentation demonstrated a continuum of opportunities, including meetings (from BaseCAMP to Advance CAMP), continued in-person training for Shibboleth and Grouper, and online training for the InCommon Federation and the InCommon Trusted Access Platform.
Community Trust and Assurance Board (CTAB)
Brett Bieber, immediate past chair of CTAB, outlined the efforts to meet Baseline Expectations over the last year. In a year, the community went from a very low percentage of entities meeting Baseline (5% of SPs and 16% of IdPs) to 96% of both IdPs and SPs now meeting the expectations. The program now enters the Community Dispute Resolution process, which will be used to engage those organizations not meeting Baseline (about 60). Ultimately, non-complying entities could be removed from the Federation metadata.
In the last few weeks of 2018, InCommon used two consultants to call organizations that had yet to meet Baseline. This provided an opportunity to discuss Baseline (when there was an answer) and also to gain some feedback. The next step is to notify the community that we are publishing the entities yet to meet Baseline.
Internet2 Program and Priorities Committee (PPC)
The Internet2 board established this committee to represent issues and activities of all of the Program Advisory Groups (PAGs) in Internet2. Sean Reynolds represents the Trust and Identity PAG on the PPC. Klara Jelinkova is also a member, wearing her Internet2 board hat. There has been one organizational call to date, with the first PPC meeting tomorrow at Global Summit.