InCommon Technical Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Attending: Ian Young, Steve Carmody, Jim Jokl, Nick Roy, Scott Cantor, Keith Hazelton, Tom Barton, Jim Basney, Paul Caskey, David Walker
With: Tom Scavo, IJ Kim, John Krienke, Nate Klingenstein
Action Items:
(AI) Need a TAC/community leader to shepherd the new software guidelines through the community review process
(AI) Steve C. will send the Interfederation Working Group recommendations to Steering, with a strong recommendation for signing the eduGAIN declaration
(AI) Steve will send, on behalf of TAC, a thank-you to Warren Anderson for his efforts leading the interfederation working group
Ops Update
- Installing the metadata redirect to the new aggregate on Monday, March 31
- Software Guidelines (discussed at the last TAC meeting) are published and up for community review (public wiki). (AI) We need a TAC/community leader for this and to inform the community that these are available for review. https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/InCFederation/Software+Guidelines
Steering Program Subcommittee Planning
- at a special TAC meeting last week, a lead person/group was identified for many of the priorities. Steve C. provided that information to the program subcommittee
- the subcommittee is working on another spreadsheet that lists all of the projects and programs now underway at InCommon, with notes about status and deadlines
- goal: between now and August, develop both 2014 and 2015 priorities
- goal: develop priority-setting process for steering to use going forward
- Internet2 will launch its 2015 budget process right after the 2014 Global Summit, with drafts due April 30.
New Working Groups
Charters were approved for two new working groups:
- Alternative IdPs WG (David Walker will chair)
- External Identities WG (Paul Caskey will chair
Recommendations from Interfederation Working Group
- Final Report: https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/incinterfed/Final+Report+to+TAC
- The working group reviewed the declaration, constitution, metadata profile from eduGAIN, as did Internet2’s legal office.
- The working group recommends that InCommon sign the eduGAIN declaration. This recommendation will go to Steering. Steering will discuss on April 6.
- This will require some modifications to the InCommon FOPP and the InCommon Participation Agreement
- Once the declaration is approved, there are a number of technical issues to work through
- (AI) TAC accepted the report and asked Steve to send it to Steering with strong support for signing the eduGAIN declaration
- (AI) Steve will send, on behalf of TAC, a thank-you to Warren Anderson for his efforts
- TAC will charter a third iteration of the Interfederation WG to follow through on these recommendations
Extending the Google Gateway to R&S
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12r35O10w5DEHY75w7KQe-cqHVzq9XVu6VfiD9p8Nk7c/edit
There was discussion about this recommendation, but a number of questions about deployment. Additional thought and information is needed, so this topic was deferred to the next meeting.
Internet2 Global Summit
There is a TAC meeting on the schedule (Monday, 3-5 pm). TAC will discuss whether to meet via email.
Next Meeting
Next call is scheduled for April 10, at the tail end of the Global Summit and may be cancelled