Date, Time, and Location
Thursday, December 19, 2019
1:10pm ET | 12:10pm CT | 11:10am MT | 10:10am PT
Minutes
Attending: Mary McKee, Eric Kool-Brown, Heather Flanagan, Mark Rank, Keith Wessel, Judith Bush, Matt Brookover, Mizuki Karasawa, Matthew Economou
With: Dean Woodbeck, David Walker, Ian Young, David Bantz, Nick Roy, Jessica Coltrin, Steve Zoppi, Albert Wu, Ann West, Shannon Roddy, Les LaCroix
Intellectual Property Reminder - All Internet2 activities are governed by the Internet2 Intellectual Property Framework.
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Trust and Identity and Ops Updates
Shannon reported on a scan that reports SSL Labs grade score, looking at the SSL/TLS implementation of all endpoints registered by InCommon. The vast majority of endpoints are scoring A and B (out of a six-point scale).
International Updates
December 2019 - FIM4R had a lively meeting immediately prior to TechEx, and have already posted a blog about the discussions from the day: https://fim4r.org/2019/12/16/the-evolving-role-of-fim4r/. The REFEDS meeting, another information-packed meeting last week, has all the slides from the day posted on the meeting site: https://refeds.org/meetings/41st. The Hackathon, which overlapped the first two days of TechEx, was not particularly well attended. While some work was done on Satosa and pyFF, in general the organizers have learned that trying to overlap a hackathon with other events is not viable.
2020 - There area host of other meetings coming up in Q1 2020 that may be of interest to this group:
- PiDapalooza 2020 (Lisbon, 29-30 January) focuses on personal identifiers, and tends to bring data management specialists and researchers in for two very, very busy days.
- TIIME (Vienna, 17-20 February) seems to be a meeting somewhat on the decline in terms of attendance. That said, there will be a FIM4R meeting and an idpy meeting (think, Satosa, pyFF, pySAML2, etc) during the week.
- eduGAIN Town Hall (Stockholm, 24-25 March) is garnering quite a bit of interest, and is going to bring together a fairly international audience. While no official REFEDS or FIM4R meeting will be held there, there will likely be a hackathon and/or developers workshop on the 23rd, and the REFEDS steering committee will be meeting for a day-long retreat as well.
- TNC2020 (Brighton, 8-10 June) has registration now open, and the call for submitting BoF and Demo requests is still open. See https://tnc20.geant.org/.
One other item is a presentation by a gentleman outside our usual community named Bill Kasdorf. Each year, he updates the STM publishing community on trends and activity in the standards world as they relate to information sharing and the web. You might find his latest presentation interesting, as the trends he sees with regards to a growing emphasis on practicality might be something that resonates with what’s happening in our community as well:
https://www.stm-assoc.org/2019_12_04_STM_Digital_publishing_Pivoting_to_the_practical_Kasdorf.pdf
Deployment Profile WG Survey Results
A corrected graph was shown (corrected from one shown last week).
TAC Officer Election
Chair election closes today. Vice-chair election opens tomorrow.
Welcome to New Members
Introductions of new members and current TAC members.
Subject-Matter Expert Participation/Involvement
TAC will review the 2020 TAC work plan and then determine the expertise needed from any potential SMEs