Minutes
Attending: David Bantz, Les LaCroix, Mary McKee, Mark Rank, Mizuki Karasawa, Janemarie Duh, Keith Wessel, Matthew Brookover, Matthew Economou, Judith Bush, Heather Flanagan, Eric Goodman (90%)
With: Dave Shafer, David Walker, Ian Young, Jessica Coltrin, Romy Bolton, Nick Roy, Ann West, Dean Woodbeck, Albert Wu, Shannon Roddy, Steven Zoppi, IJ Kim, Kevin Morooney
Intellectual Property Reminder - All Internet2 activities are governed by the Internet2 Intellectual Property Framework.
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International Updates
- PIDApalooza - Heather is there - it is all about identifiers
- eduGAIN town hall scheduled
- Hackathon in Sweden last week of March
- TIIME in Vienna this year; attendance has been declining
- Distinguished engineer program from REFEDS again this year
- TNC will be in Brighton, England, in June
Trust and Identity and Ops Updates
Federation Manager move to AWS
- First phase was building out MDQ
- Dave shared a diagram describing the move
- The move should be transparent to participants
- Will change the host name for the Federation Manager (something like fm.incommon.org)
Transitioning the MDQ Service
- Project kicked off in 2018 in response to a TAC working group
- Requirements and deliverables
- Enabled TLS
- Humans no longer touch the key
- Alarms in place
- Security - has better security than the aggregate
- Uptime - have had 100% uptime for more than 200 days
- 200ms response time for >=99% of queries on the Internet2 network
- Multi-site monitoring and notification (implemented StatusCake)
- Remaining deliverables
- Transitioning community
- Retire legacy metadata signing (the move to AWS will enable this)
- 24x7x365 channel for reporting issues (requires resources; although there is an on-call rotation with outage notifications)
- Handling non-outage/non-security incidents (need collaboration with other service owners)
- Here is the MDQ Closeout Report
Accept MDQ Close-Out as a Final Report
TAC voted to accept this close-out report as the final report for the MDQ Per-entity working group and project
2020 Work Plan
Overall theme - making federation easier and lowering the barriers to participating
Work underway or to-be-underway this year
- Test federation
- Define the minimum viable product
- Develop user stories (with prioritization)
- Define what this means more specifically
- Would this be “member-only” or available widely and used as one way to demonstrate the benefits/value of InCommon
- Revamp of cloud services cookbook
- Also proposed in the REFEDS 2020 planning doc
- IdP as a Service WG
- Note that the IoLR WG within REFEDS has closed
- Seamless Access
Need to document requirements, scheduling work, identifying dependencies, and where these fit with InCommon’s priorities
What are the end goals for these items?
Janemarie developed a doc with the work items, asking TAC members to sign up to work on one or more items in sub-groups to document user stories and end goals. Janemarie will create and link stubs for each work item.