Draft Minutes: Nat'l K-12 Federated IAM Task Force Call of 19-March-2014
Attending
Steve Olshansky, Internet Society
Lee Cummings, retired from Rockingham County Schools, NC
Stephan Papadopulos, DC Government
Violeta Curlic, DC Government
Mark Scheible, MCNC
Emily Eisbruch Internet2, scribe
Action Item
[AI] (Jim) will share graphic that illustrates issues around identity and data exchange with Google
DISCUSSION
Quilt InCommon Pilots
https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/InCQuiltFed/Home
Mark reported that the Quilt InCommon pilots are moving along well.
The Illinois pilot and Nebraska pilot are two with a fairly broad scope.
The MCNC pilot has a more narrow scope, working on federated access between a community college and a K12 school district. Recently there has been an issue with needing Moodle to publish a new SP for the project. Currently Moodle has a single SP with a lot of different endpoints for the different schools using federated access.
The Pilot Definition group is working on onboarding a few new pilots, including MOREnet, KINBER, and others.
There is work on developing federation business models for InCommon and the regionals. See the Draft Federation Business Partner Models for InCommon and Regionals. See http://tinyurl.com/ky2r5wl
MCNC is going to embark on a pilot with InCommon to develop the partnership, based on the Model 4 (Full Service Steward). Recent discussions have focused on setting up agreements that would maintain the trust between InCommon and the end users. Currently, term sheets are being developed, and a next step will be to develop the pricing.
Question: Regarding pricing, is it still true that an important issue is the registration authority (RA) function, and how much the regional is willing to take on?
Mark: True, however the pricing for ongoing year to year service isn't necessarily greatly impacted by the RA function. If more than one district can use an IDP, this could impact price.
Question: What about production / maintenance of a dedicated metadata aggregate? Might the regional develop their own aggregate and roll that up into InCommon?
Mark: The inter-federation working group of the InCommon TAC is looking at issues and approaches around metadata aggregates. https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/incinterfed/Interfed+Subcommittee
Question : Was federation as a service discussed at the Feb 2014 La Jolla Workshop?
Mark: Recently there has been less focus on technical implementation and more focus on getting the business models defined.
Data Protection FAQ
https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/K12FedIAMTF/Home
Everyone is welcome to contribute to the Data Protection FAQ. Would be good to identify gaps that we have not addressed.
Presentations
Mark reported that Phil Emer recently gave an interesting presentation on student data to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Information Technology of the NC legislature. Link about Phil Emer: https://www.fi.ncsu.edu/about-us/leadership-team/name/phil-emer/
Mark is checking with Phil to see if that presentation can be shared on the wiki.
Internet2 Global Summit Sessions of Interest
Program session on "Federation and Cloud Services for the K12 Community"
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 at 1:15pm - 2:30pm
BOF on Quilt InCommon Pilots: Identity Federation for K12 and Community Colleges
Thursday, April 10, 2014 at 7:30am-8:30am
Next call : Wed. 16-April (3rd Wednesday) at 3:00 PM ET