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Working Group Chair: Keith Hazelton, University of Wisconsin

Charter for Data Structures and APIs Working Group

TIER Timeline and Deliverables for TechEx 2017

Key Deliverables from TIER Release 1

TIER Standards and Guidelines

TIER API: Basic Group Management Operations

TIER API: Basic Person Management Operations

Instrumenting and Monitoring TIER Components

Narrative Form: Deliverables in the WG Charter

By April 2016

• Publish and promote the adoption of a first-round set of conventions for API and data structure design. The goal is to inform and hopefully influence API development for Release 1.0 Grouper and COmanage components.
• Pair the basic group and membership management APIs with an event-driven messaging approach to the same functionality. Clarify the circumstances that favor one approach over the other.
• Assess possible models for APIs and data structures around consent.
• Document the first round requirements for administering and monitoring IAM infrastructure and specify the kinds of instrumentation needed in each component to support administration and monitoring. 

Other resources

• Jim Fox on Messaging at U Dub

• Rob Carter thoughts on fine-grained authZ on APIs for data access  <== relates to issues discussed on the 11 December 2015 call

• JIRA Project for TIER API Working Group

• Working Group Members Representing Stakeholder Interests

• Background information on TIER, Internet2 initiative on Trust and Identity in Education and Research

• Internet2 Middleware IAM Diagram from 2006.
• Accomplishments and Plans from the TIER API and Registries Working Groups (blog January 2017)

See Also:

• TIER Working Groups Home
• TIER Reference Architecture
• TIER Entity Registry Working Group
• TIER Grouper Deployment Guide (PDF) (Released April 2017)
• Instrumentation Working Document
• CIFER API Project