CTAB Call Tuesday April 5, 2022

 Attending

• David Bantz, University of Alaska (chair) 
• Jon Miner, University of Wisc - Madison (co-chair)
• Pål Axelsson, SUNET
• Sarah Borland, University of Nebraska 
• Ercan Elibol, Florida Polytechnic University
• Richard Frovarp,  North Dakota State 
• Eric Goodman, UCOP - InCommon TAC Representative to CTAB 
• Andy Morgan, Oregon State University
• Rick Wagner, UCSD 
• Chris Whalen, Research Data and Communication Technologies 
• Jule Ziegler,  Leibniz Supercomputing Centre 
• Robert Zybeck, Portland Community College 
• Tom Barton, Internet2, ex-officio 
• Johnny Lasker, Internet2 
• Kevin Morooney, Internet2 
• Ann West, Internet2 
• Albert Wu, Internet2 
• Netta Caligari, Internet2 
• Emily Eisbruch, Internet2   

 Regrets 

• Meshna Koren, Elsevier
• Dave Robinson, Grinnell College in Iowa, InCommon Steering Rep, ex-officio

Discussion

• Intellectual Property reminder
• Agenda Bash

 Working Group Updates

• REFEDS Assurance 
  •  No updates
• REFEDs MFA Sub Group
  • Met this morning
  • Writing  a proposed draft/ revision to the REFEDs MFA profile to illustrate recommendations produced earlier
• SIRTFI Exercise Working Group
  
  • Polishing the call for participation in the exercise
  • Deciding how large of an exercise this should be
• InCommon TAC Updates
  • No Updates
• NIH Assurance Work
  • No updates
• InCommon Steering
  • InCommon Steering meets once per month; met yesterday, April 4
  • Focus on security at the April 4 call  
  • Several InCommon Steering members weighed in for having enforceable standards with teeth and accountability
  •   We need to be aware of potential impacts, and which part of our community has resources  to fulfill security requirements
  • SIRTFI testing, SIRTFI Exercise Working Group,  is important to Steering
  • Hope to have someone from REN-ISAC on the SIRTFI Exercise Working Group tabletop exercise

CTAB Work Plan  

• Theme is scaling interoperability
• Suggestion to defer some work plan items, since there may be too many in the current list

• Discussion of some of the work plan items:

• Work Plan Item: Review new REFEDS Entity Categories & MFA profile
• Plan is to recommend use of personalized entity category instead of R&S
• R&S and the new entity categories  (anonymous, pseudonymous, personalized) may exist side by side for several years
• InCommon may want to provide guidance to InCommon federation participants on best way to use/support entity categories
• Suggestion that best practice guidance is needed from REFEDs
• Need to explain to the community how/when to use the new entity categories
  
  
• Work Plan Item: Settle how we’ll handle TLS security
• What process should we follow
  
  

• New work plan item: Decide how to monitor on-going compliance with Baseline Expectations to help participants maintain adherence

• Albert: InCommon operations is working on strengthening contact management, finding out "are you still there, are you still the right person?"
• Scanning that’s being done for BEv2 is helping collect info

• Suggested process for achieving the work plan items
  • For some items,  get community involvement and create white papers with recommendation

Action Item: CTAB members: sign up for work plan items you are interested in working on

Action Item: David, Jon and Albert  will do editing and cleaning up on the Work Plan document  

Next CTAB call: Tuesday, April 19, 2022