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Jim Fox, Benn Oshrin, Marlena Erdos, Chris Hyzer, Keith Hazelton, Warren Curry, Maarten Kremers, Gabor Eszes, ...

Conduct and publish the results of a critical evaluation of the basic group and membership management APIs.

Use Swagger 2.0 and/or R AML 1.0 to represent the three most basic RESTful group API calls as defined by Grouper, VOOT2, SCIM 2.0 and CIFER

Our initial assumption was that the three most basic group management calls are:
- Is this person a member of this group?
- List the members of a group
- List all the groups for which a given person is a member

U Dub’s eight most heavily used Group ops	Chris Hyzer’s top three group operations
1) isMember (or hasMember)	1) isMember (or hasMember)
2) getMembers (of a group)	2) getMembers (of a group)
7) get/search Groups (of a member)	3) getGroups (of a member)
3) getGroup
4) putGroup
5) getAllMembers (of a group)
6) putAllMembers (of a group)
8) put/delete member to/from Group

- Maarten Kremers confirmed that VOOT2 is only about GETs.
- VOOT2 protocol expressed as valid swagger2. See VOOT2 swagger yaml used for input into editor.swagger.io (to obtain resulting swagger API documentation

SCIM: See both the Protocol Specification RFC7644 and Core Schema Specification RFC7643. Marlena Erdos comment: Quite rich group operations for read (and search) and write, quite fully documented -- and quite low level. Applies to a client contacting a server (natch, but this in contrast to Grouper)

FYI, Group Mgt used in some research communities:
- VOMS - Virtual Organization Management Service. Used by the international Grid and Open Science Grid communities. Uses X.509 attribute certificates.