CACTI Call Tuesday, January 5, 2020 

Attending

Members

• Rob Carter, Duke University, (Chair)  
• Les LaCroix, Carleton College (Vice-Chair)  
• Marina Adomeit, SUNET  
• John Bradley, Independent  
• Joshua Drake, Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research  
• Matthew Economou, InCommon TAC Representative to CACTI  
• Stoney Gan, University of South Florida  
• Michael Grady, Unicon  
• Kevin Hickey, Detroit Mercy  
• Marina Krenz, REN-ISAC  
• Barry Johnson, Clemson  
• Jeremy Perkins, Instructure  
• Chris Phillips, CANARIE  
• Bill Thompson, Lafayette College  

Ex Officio

• Jill Gemmill, Clemson   

Internet2 

• Kevin Morooney   
• Ann West   
• Steve Zoppi    
• Nic Roy  
• Emily Eisbruch   
• Mike Zawacki  

Regrets

• Margaret Cullen, Painless Security

 DISCUSSION

Administrivia

• Internet2 Intellectual Property Agreement reminder
• CACTI Charter pointer
  
  

Basic ground rules of CACTI  

• Please say your name when you start to speak, until we learn each others' voices
• Please ask colleagues to define terms, expand acronyms, etc, until we learn each others' jargon
• It's ok to challenge your colleagues in pursuit of quality of discourse. Hopefully in a nice way
• Please disclose any conflicts of interest you may have in any of the agenda topics, and potentially excuse yourself from the relevant conversations
• Please attend 2021 Committee Orientation on Wed., January 27, noon ET  
  
  

REFEDs and Cloud Services Cookbook input

• REFEDs is requesting input on the Cloud Services Cookbook  
•  https://wiki.refeds.org/display/FBP/Cloud+Services+Cookbook
• All CACTI members should subscribe to the REFEDS global R&E federations coordination email list: https://lists.refeds.org/sympa/info/refeds
• Relatively low traffic and high value for initiatives of likely interest to CACTI, including the refactoring of the cloud services cookbook

Welcome from Kevin Morooney, VP Internet2 Trust and Identity Services / Intro to CACTI and why it exists 

• Kevin's Slides on Relationships among InCommon and T&I Committees
• January is important for governance/advisory board onboarding 
• There are a number of community governance/advisory groups that help Internet2/InCommon function
• Internet2 origin story, told and retold
  • Internet2 was founded in 1996 by 34 Research  University CIOs
  • to build a network for research universities in response to what was happening with the emerging commercial internet
• Members come together to talk about common challenges
• Solving problems in the university environment can help solve the problem for other contexts 
• Overlapping circles: Internet2, NET+ , eduroam, InCommon
• Internet2 Trust and Identity used to be called middleware

Other Advisory/Governance Groups to Know About

• Helpful list: Trust and Identity Working Groups List
• InCommon Steering Committee has duties and obligations according to bylaws to run the InCommon Federation. It is like a board.
• CTAB (InCommon Community Trust and Assurance Board)  is focused on organizational change, minimum bar, profiles,
  • CTAB grew out of the InCommon Assurance Program. CTAB has evolved to focus on Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation.
• InCommon Technical Advisory Board (TAC) looks at specific requirements and technologies, interop, eg: metadata query work and SAML2INT,
  • TAC advises InCommon Steering. 
• Eduroam Advisory Committee (chartered by and advisory to CACTI)
• Each Internet2 division must have a Program Advisory Group (PAG)
  • https://internet2.edu/community/community-group-list/         
    Trust and Identity PAG

• InCommon Ops Advisory Group 
  • This Ops advisory group is informal and anyone can join, contact Nic if you are interested.  

CACTI's Role

• CACTI is chartered to be advisory to the Internet2 VP for Trust and Identity (Kevin Morooney)
• CACTI is rooted in an older group called MACE
  • MACE did important work for middleware for 10+ years.
  • MACE was intentionally convened with members who had a high degree of architectural awareness, with focus on solving challenging technical issues.
  • MACE now sunsetted
• CACTI places a high value on openness and transparency
• CACTI has formal and community driven membership process.
  
  • has international membership and both R&E and commercial representation.
• CACTI is charged with looking across the community  and determining where we should spend resources to address gaps.
• To move the community forward with focus on architecture. 
• Outreach into the commercial sector on behalf of R&E is important
  
  

We will carry forward the agenda items below to next CACTI call

1. Continued intro to structure of InCommon/I2/advisory bodies (check with Kevin) (Kevin)
2. CACTI representative to Trust and Identity Program Advisory Group (Kevin and Rob)
3. Final report of the CACTI  OIDC Working Group (Rob)
1. Next steps to get this completed
4. First major discussion topic of 2021 - please see list of topics that came out of end-of-2020 ideation compiled by Rob  
5. Cloud services cookbook refactoring in REFEDS - Should we invite Keith Wessel, chair of InCommon TAC, and editor of the cookbook, to talk to us about this?

Next CACTI Meeting: Tuesday, January 19th, 2021