Attending: Walter Hoehn, Mark Scheible, Kim Milford, Tom Barton, Jim Jokl, Steve Carmody, Ian Young, Janemarie Duh, Scott Cantor, Chris Misra
With: Dean Woodbeck, David Walker, Mike LaHaye, Tom Scavo, IJ Kim, Paul Caskey, Steve Zoppi, Ann West, Kevin Morooney
Approved
Tom Scavo presented the Ops Update and shared a link to the issues that are unresolved or recently resolved.
An incident “Metadata signing process failed (2016-03-21)” has been resolved with a new metadata import and signing process. This process will avoid this problem, which resulted in the process of retrieving metadata from eduGAIN. Coincidentally, the process was put into use on May 20 and it worked.
The ops advisory group has identified four interfederation technical policy rules. These are ready but waiting on deployment:
Nick Roy, Walter Hoehn, and Steve Carmody met with representatives from Microsoft during the Global Summit to follow-up on the interoperability spec and the lack of comment from Microsoft to date. The meeting included three Microsoft reps (education rep, program manager for Azure, and program manager for ADFS). None were familiar with the spec, so the session focused on ADFS and Azure and the mismatch between those products and the multifederation model. The meeting seemed productive as an educational session.
There was discussion as a follow-on to the Global Summit discussion about the potential for an InCommon incident response process and the potential removal of entity descriptors or compromised key material from the InCommon metadata. This wa prompted by the approaching end-of-life of Shibboleth IdPv2. Nick drafted a document with the problem statement, the current lack of basis for any such action by InCommon, and a proposed solution.
The TAC proposes this sequence of events:
At what point would this be vetted with the community (before or after going to Steering)?
TAC also needs to consider how InCommon would recognize the potential security issue and what the incident response looks like - what is the procedure?
At the Global Summit, the TAC asked a subgroup to make a recommendation on to move forward on prioritization (Steve Carmody, Jim Jokl, and Mark Scheible volunteered for the subgroup). The subgroup has met twice and has these recommendations:
The goal is to give the community a single InCommon work list that includes the priorities developed by the staff and the TAC work list (and, presumably, any AAC list).
(AI) The subgroup will develop a method for soliciting TAC feedback on the InC priorities list, as well as on the TAC work list.
The suggestion is to look at three topics from the TAC work list in detail: 1) the “gold star program” - which recommended practices are a must?; 2) Support for non-SAML protocols (like OIDC); 3) Per-entity metadata - what is needed to go to production?
Given that TAC has a draft charter for a per-entity metadata working group, and all agree that this should be on the short list of things to accomplish, it was decided to constitute that working group. (AI) TAC will find a chair and constitute the WG.