InCommon Steering Meeting Minutes – 23 Sept
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AGENDA
Approval of Minutes
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2013
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Updates/Discussion
- Interfederation discussion with regionals. MCNC and InCommon have been discussing a pilot
- Communications to CIOs - draft memo to Ana
- Draft Survey for R&S and Service by Affiliation category
- Federal Demonstration Project - A panel with NSF and NIH on using InCommon for research administration. Discuss next steps.
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Attending: Jack Suess, Joel Cooper, Klara Jelinkova, Craig Stewart, Chris Holmes, Michael Gettes, John O’Keefe, Ken Klingenstein
With: Ann West, Steve Carmody, John Krienke, Shel Waggener
Scribe: Dean Woodbeck
Action Items
(AI) Jack Suess will send the note concerning CIO communications to Ana, emphasizing the desire to get the first communication out early the week of October 7.
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(AI) John Krienke will send a note to the nominations committee to kick-off the process.
Minutes from September 9 will be up for approval next time
Updates
Communications to CIOs – A summary of the purpose for InCommon Steering communication for CIOs was drafted and needs to go to Ana Huntsinger, the Internet2 VP that is responsible for overall communications with CIOs. (AI) Hearing no objection from Steering, Jack will send the note to Ana, including the need to get the first communication out early the week of October 7.
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Also, TAC has spun up a second interfederation working group; this was one of the recommendations from the first interfederaton working group (see the complete set of recommendations at https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/x/Dw9OAg). This second group will be led by Warren Anderson (LIGO) and Paul Caskey (University of Texas System and TAC). The primary deliverables are to have InCommon sign the eduGAIN agreement, and to continue the work on interfederating with the UK federation. Currently, Brown is hosting a metadata aggregate that includes both the InCommon and the UK metadata, which is being used by several LIGO institutions.
Federal Demonstration Project (FDP)
Jack attended a meeting of the Federal Demonstration Project, which included mainly sponsored program officers from research universities (attendance was 100-130). NSF reported that only about one-half of one percent of FastLane logins are via InCommon and would like to see that increase. Most of the sponsored program officers had not heard of InCommon and were unfamiliar with federated identity. NIH was also in attendance and discussed the NIST Level 1 eRA.
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Michael reported that, at Carnegie Mellon, the main sticking point with NSF is that FastLane requires users to change passwords every three or six months, which is problematic for federated access. Also, it is not obvious at research.gov where you go to use your federated credentials. In addition, NIH has apparently not implemented SAML2. Jack is meeting with the NSF CIO on Thursday and will bring concerns to that meeting.
Identity Week Meeting
John O’Keefe is interested in calling in to steering meeting. (AI) Dean will follow-up on potential remote participation.
Nominations
A portion of the Sept. 30 exec call will focus on starting the nominations process for Steering. (AI) John K will send a note to the nominations committee to kick-off the process.
Marilyn MacMillan has resigned from Steering because of a continuing campus conflict with the Steering meeting time.
Meeting with Shel
Shel Waggener joined the call to continue the discussion of the role of Steering in the Internet2 Trust and Identity initiatives. He shared a draft organizational plan (PPT file attached to the wiki: https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/download/attachments/43058458/NET+Plus+Org+and+Governance+Model.pptx), emphasizing that he sees this as a living document that will likely change as we gain experience.
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Shel will develop an FAQ on a Google doc, which Steering can use to pose question, and Shel can answer
Next Call with Shel
The next Steering call with Shel is scheduled for Monday, October 7. The call will focus on 1) clarifying what we mean by TIER (now called Trust and Identity), and 2) understand how we can finance the initiative and get things moving.
NEXT MEETING
7 October 2013
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