CTAB call of September 22, 2020

Attending

• David Bantz, University of Alaska (chair)  
• Pål Axelsson, SUNET  
• Brett Bieber, University of Nebraska  
• Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Globus, University of Chicago   
• Tom Barton, University Chicago and Internet2, ex-officio  
• Ercan Elibol, Florida Polytechnic University  
•  Eric Goodman, UCOP - TAC Representative to CTAB
• Jon Miner, University of Wisc - Madison  
• John Pfeifer, University of Maryland   
• Marc Wallman, North Dakota State University, InCommon Steering Rep, ex-officio  
• Chris Whalen, Research Data and Communication Technologies 
• Jule Ziegler,  Leibniz Supercomputing Centre  
• Robert Zybeck, Portland Community College  
• Johnny Lasker, Internet2  
• Kevin Morooney, Internet2  
• Ann West, Internet2  
• Albert Wu, Internet2  
• Emily Eisbruch, Internet2  
• Jessica Fink, Internet2  
• Dean Woodbeck, Internet2 

Regrets

• Chris Hable, University of Michigan
• Mary Catherine Martinez, InnoSoft (vice chair)
• Richard Frovarp, North Dakota State

New Action Items from this Call

• AI Jule and Albert  develop a CAMP proposal on MFA and Assurance (Pal, Brett and Jon willing to help)  
  Deadline for CAMP proposals is Oct 6,
  Pal and Jule will create a draft by Sept 23
• AI Jessica will share a list of people rolling off other InCommon Advisory groups
• AI Albert publish the BEv2 implementation plan on the wiki

Discussion

Intellectual Property reminder   

BEv2 Webinar prep  

• Baseline Expectations v2 Community Presentation and Discussion
  Wed Sept 23  at 2pm ET
• 5 - 10 min background presentation to BEv2
• Reserve remaining time for Q&A
• David will start with about 10 slides to introduce the topic
• Reminder of history BE v1, present the 3 new baseline expectations
• People can use the chat to ask questions
• At a Shibboleth webinar, a question was asked about the BEv2 timeline, SteveZ addressed that question
• Albert: We have not yet published the implementation plan on the wiki, 
• Implementation plan has the schedule / dates / milestones
• Decision: yes, publish the implementation plan on the wiki
• AI Albert publish the BEv2 implementation plan on the wiki
• It was noted that David’s slides for the webinar include the expected dates

BEv2 kick-off at CAMP 

•  Topics we may want to discuss with the community, to prepare for future Baseline Expectations, include:
  • REFEDs assurance
  • MFA Profile  
• It makes sense to coordinate with REFEDs on a CAMP presentation 
• Jule: there was a presentation at TechEx 2019, will be discussed in next REFEDS assurance call
• Albert: Supporting the MFA profile and supporting MFA are two different things
• AI Jule and Albert   - Develop a CAMP proposal on MFA and Assurance (Pal, Brett and Jon willing to help)   Deadline for CAMP proposals is Oct 6, Pal and Jule will create a draft by Sept 23
• Pal: we should note the different context in different countries. 
• There is some identity proofing and vetting in all cases.  The I9 is United States specific
• Defining what value you send as an IDP is culture based
• Eric: Are organizations still focused on onboarding, identity vetting, and assurance?
  • At UC Trust, there were no applications that asked for attribute around higher assurance,
  • Even if we don’t require REFEDs assurance, we should still stress the connection of assurance and onboarding
•  There is value to using I9 data intersected with "MFA-enrolled" to achieve a group that could be used in an assertion of assurance.
• It would be helpful to develop a potential roadmap
• Eventually a global ecosystem is needed around assurance
• Some organizations, including U Chicago, are already complying with REFEDs assurance
• How many European organizations are using an assurance framework?
  • Not sure, but certainly the number will increase when an organization demands it, such as CERN did with SIRTFI

TechEx 2020

• On Oct. 6 there will be a kickoff of TechEx, followed by a season of events, including CAMP and ACAMP
• The kickoff session on Oct 6, 2020  will be relevant to this group

  • Link to Oct. 6 keynote from NIH is here:   https://internet2.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?pid=9e5ec1c1-6fac-4713-bdd3-ac5300f9eb33

  • Link to Oct. 6 panel from NIH is here: https://internet2.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=aab17930-72b4-4839-9e45-ac53011ecaf3

  • The first keynote address will feature Andrea Norris, Director, Center for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer at the National Institutes of Health, and Michael Tartakovsky, Chief Information Officer and Director, Office of the Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Their keynote will focus on research challenges in the era of the pandemic and will be followed by a panel discussion between some of the primary stakeholders facing these challenges.

  • After the keynote, there will be a panel on systems working within NIH

•  David submitted a brief CAMP proposal on BEv2,

CTAB membership - 2021 recruitment (Jessica)  

• 4 members rolling off CTAB
• 2 are re-nominating
• Look at the announcement, blurb for CTAB, what should we say concerning backgrounds we are seeking? 
• Would make sense to recruit
  • women in identity
  • service providers representatives
• Suggestion to consult with Dedra C from Cirrus Identity on possible candidates for CTAB
• Still useful for a candidate to have audit experience
• Community College representation on CTAB is valuable, thanks to RobertZ for being a Community College Representative 
• Suggestion to HBCUs to increase diversity
  • AnaH, Internet2 Vice President of Community Engagement, and others are having conversations with representatives of HBCUs.
  • Kevin is participating in these calls. 
• AI Jessica will share a list of people rolling off other InCommon Advisory groups

Next CTAB Call: Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020