Minutes: Nat'l K-12 Federated IAM Task Force Call of 20-Nov-2013
Attending
Steve Olshansky, Internet2 (Chair)
Lee Cummings, retired from Rockingham County Schools, NC
Daniel Augustine, Fremont Unified School District, CA
Karen Billings, SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association)
Keith Krueger, CoSN
Denise Shorey, CoSN
Mark Scheible, MCNC
Stephan Papadopulos, DC Government
Howard Barrett, DC Government
Violeta Curlic, DC Government
Phanindra Banda, DC Government
New Action Item
[AI] (SteveO and Denise) start the FAQs on data privacy, including emailing the list to solicit questions.
https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/K12FedIAMTF/Data+Protection+FAQs
Carry Over Action Items
[AI] (All) discuss on the mailing list your thoughts about next steps for this group.
[AI] (Stephan) will share DC Schools use case outline or preliminary writeup with Mark.
[AI] (All) review or contribute to the recipe and use cases
[AI] (Jim) will create a case study for Fairfax. This might focus on the
Shib aspect, with thought towards federation down the road.
[AI] (Jim) share textbook contract wording around single sign in
[AI] (Jim) get a volunteer with an instructional hat to read the primer
and provide feedback.
DISCUSSION
Data Protection FAQ Development
On recent calls of this group development of FAQs around data protection issues has been discussed. Denise would like to do an EPIC-ED posting featuring data protection FAQs. Seehttps://www.epiced.org/node/514/content/blogs for a previous posting.
A wiki page has been set up for this group to pose questions and draft answers around data privacy. See
https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/K12FedIAMTF/Data+Protection+FAQs
Denise plans to take the content that exists on that wiki by Dec. 10 and use it for a blog posting. About five FAQs would be a good amount. The information could be subject to later addition and revision, as a living document. In addition to the FAQs , Denise would also like to include links to a small set of helpful resources in the blog posting, The FAQs could later be put it on the COSN website along with the Primer.
[AI] (SteveO and Denise) start the FAQs on data privacy, including emailing the list to solicit questions.
It was agreed that many states and districts are grappling with important privacy and process questions related to moving data, including student data, to the cloud. It would be good to have guidance that is not vendor specific. In some cases inBloom has become a focal point, but the issue extends beyond any one vendor or program.
Keith noted that COSN is working with the Berkman Institute for Internet and Society at Harvard on developing a toolkit around privacy in the cloud environment.
Quilt/InCommon K-12 Federation Pilots https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/InCQuiltFed/Home
The Quilt/InCommon pilots are progressing well. There has been good collaboration between the pilots, for example between Illinois and Nebraska pilots.
Quilt/InCommon Federation Workshop Planned for Feb 2014
The Quilt/InCommon pilots came out of the Quilt/InCommon Federation Workshop following the Quilt 2013 Winter meeting in La Jolla in Feb 2013http://www.thequilt.net/index.php/events/246-2013-quilt-incommon
There will be a follow-up workshop in Feb 2014 in La Jolla. Each of the pilots will have a representative to update the community on their progress. This 2014 workshop is in the planning stages. More details later.
Federation Business Model Development
InCommon and MCNC are working to develop business models to make it more cost effective for K12 districts to access federated IDM. A meeting was held in Chicago in October to further the development of the models. Models being looked include having a regional federation provide the vetting and registration services that InCommon provides to its Higher Ed members. This would reduce the work for InCommon to bring a K12 district into the InCommon Federation and thereby potentially lower the cost. The hope is to pilot a model in North Carolina before the Feb. 2014 Workshop.
Case Study from Rockingham County Schools
Lee Cummings and Mark have finalized the K12 Federation case study from Rockingham County Schools.https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/download/attachments/30247798/RCS+Case+Study.pdf
Next Call 3:00 PM EST Wed. 18-December (3rd Wed.)