Minutes

Attendees: Steven Premeau, Andrew Morgan, Jim VanLandeghem, Keith Wessel, Derek Eiler, Mark Rank, Björn Mattsson, Grady Bailey, Joanne Boomer, Jeffery Crawford, Kathy Wright, Matthew Economou

Reps from other Groups: David Bantz(CTAB), Judith Bush(CACTI)

Staff / SME: Nicole Roy, Dave Shafer, IJ Kim, Andrew Scott, David Walker, Eric Goodman; Albert Wu, Steve Zoppi, Marina Krenz

Scribes: Steven Premeau, Jim VanLandeghem

Notes:

  • Intellectual Property Reminder

  • Public Content Notice 

  • Call for scribe volunteers ( 2 per call)

  • Agenda Bash + request for notable working and advisory group updates

    • Nicole R recaps clean up work within Federation Manager:
      • We removed over 70 inactive user accounts that had no password, email address, or federated identifier recently. Still moving forward.
      • We also fixed organization identifiers on a number of orgs, and as previously noted, deduplicated a large number of orgs. 
    • Jean C. Coming up with governance group rep panelists for basecamp. You can get comped basecamp registration. 30 minute 3 person panel. 
    • New industry relationships manager James Crampton. Started a week before Community Exchange. Will be invited to a future meeting. 
    • TI + Ops: We are continuing to make progress on cleanup work to enable sync for the InCommon Organizations page.
    • No updates from advisory groups for other committees.
  • Administratia: reviewing and approving minutes
    • Goal is to get these approved and posted prior to the next TAC meeting. 
    • We are trying to standardize our processes, so the wiki process for approving notes is likely to begin being used by other groups. 
    • Previous years TAC members have been reviewing and approving the notes. These notes get copied back into the Wiki. We need TAC members (everyone) to help approve notes. Quorum to post - requires 5 members to review and approve notes before it can get published. Once there are 5, Albert posts the notes.

  • Updates on * Access Category Deployment Guidance consultation

    • 30 day consultation window for the document - noted to avoid collisions with end of year academic cycles. 
    • Have created a consultation wiki page linked in the pre-reads. Looking for your input on changes, timing, wording, etc. 
    • Consultation will run from April 1 through April 30
    • Community consultation is a process to InCommon and the REFEDS community to collect final community feedback for material that is ready for public publishing. 
    • We use a Confluence wiki page where you can suggest/make revisions. The editors can make suggestions to the document.
    • This document was seen before in TechEx. 
    • Refeds page has many examples of the comments and responses people typically provide.
    • The InCommon Steering committee gets the final say in publishing the consultation materials. 

  • Review WG Charters - Federation Proxies WG  

    • Agreement from others that scoping this out and not focusing on the financial for now is a good call. 
    • Charter seems complete as is. AARC Blueprint as a clear starting point - may be useful to explicitly call out that this will be considered in deliverables. 
    • Should there be a more explicit time limit in the charter?  Consensus was yes.
    • Let’s focus on what this is all about, how do we address the technical operation, the trust, and the user experience. 
    • Derek is looking for a chair for the working group, please consider helping or volunteering someone who would be a good fit.
    • Next Steps:  Make revisions, request TAC feedback via email and I2 Slack, will receive final review next call.

  • Community Exchange (CX) Recap

    • Wants to help facilitate, but is asking for help with:
      • This is no simple feat, but using collective bargaining as a community in Higher Education has implications not just for Microsoft, but could extend to other benefits as well. 
      • The Higher-Ed community approaches MS as individual universities. Inconsistent approach. He is asking for us to coordinate and develop specifics in a way that a product team can understand, digest, and prioritize, to help us influence product decisions.
      • The REFEDS steering group has had discussion around establishing a global community. 
    • One highlight (and unexpected development) - Microsoft Security CISO presenting with Cirrus, and hearing what MS has to say about federation in general. 
    • Kevin delivered the Futures 2 report. 
    • Overall trends around discussion of AI and where that is all going. 
    • Had good attendance at the wallets and verifiable credentials panel.

Email Updates

International Updates

REFEDS

REFEDS working groups are starting up in Ernst. REFEDS Steering members observed that this is one of the most active years (in terms of WG activities) in quite a long time:

REFEDS 2024 Work Plan: https://wiki.refeds.org/display/WOR/2024+Workplan; highlights:

The Federation Registration WG and the Metadata about Federation WG began meeting at the start of March. The groups are open to all interested parties. Meeting notes are available on request.

The Open Science Attributes WG is scheduling its initial meeting. If you are interested, join the mailing list (listed on the groups wiki page), or contact Benn Oshrin.

The SeamlessAccess Trustinfo Metadata WG is also scheduling its initial meeting. If you are interested, join the mailing list (listed on the groups wiki page), or contact Albert Wu.

News of Interest from the EU

The EU signs in to law, adopting digital identity (i.e. digital wallet) to access public and private services across the EU: https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-2019-2024/europe-fit-digital-age/european-digital-identity_en


Next Meeting @ April 4, 2024



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