Minutes
Attending: Janemarie Duh, Mark Scheible, Eric Goodman, Mike Grady, Keith Wessel, Tom Barton, Kim Milford, Steve Carmody, Jim Jokl
With: Ian Young, Dean Woodbeck, Dave Shafer, Shannon Roddy, IJ Kim
Action Items
(AI) Dean to incorporate suggested changes to the Nov. 9 minutes prior to publication.
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These are approved contingent on Dean incorporating suggested changes prior to publication.
Ops Update
The latest enhancement of the Federation Manager includes the ability to self-manage SIRTFI. The next iteration will include certificate support in the Federation Manager (targeting about eight weeks for the next release)
Working Group Updates
SP Streamlining - Janemarie touched base with the co-chairs. The group is working on a couple of documents: 1) primer document and 2) criteria document. Janemarie suggested they ping the participants list for feedback when ready. They are chartered through the end of December, but that will be revised as the group will not be finished by then.
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In general, TAC should provide some guidance to working groups on deadlines for white papers or whatever their final product will be. This could be part of the 2018 work plan discussion over the next month or two.
Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation
There was a discussion about the upcoming requirement for having a privacy policy URL in metadata. Steven plans to publish a web page that will list those who already publish such URLs. TomB provided a link to the Baseline roadmap for additional details about this and other metadata elements. The new successor to the Assurance Advisory Committee (the Community Trust and Advisory Board) will soon begin the process of developing a community consensus process to resolve some of the questions around this.
There was also a discussion about the logo URL requirement, one recent thread on the "technical-discuss" list. This and other questions may be a good use of the community consensus process. The deployment profiles WG plans to add logo MDUI information to saml2int, so coordination with that will be key.
Updates on TAC Voting
Steering received and approved the list of TAC nominees to begin in 2018. There was a question about whether people who are also contractors with Internet2 need to sign a conflict of interest agreement. Ann is following up with Internet2 legal on that question. New TAC members with terms January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2020:
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Heather Flanagan - Spherical Cow Consulting
Judith Bush - OCLC
Eric Kool-Brown - University of Washington
Matt Brookover - Colorado School of Mines
Tom Demeranville - ORCID - based in the UK and involved with AARC and SURFconnext, as well as other European IdPs
Chair and Vice Chair
Mark Scheible was elected chair for 2018 and the Vice Chair ballot is now open. Eric suggested that for next year, it might be useful to have some sort of statement of interest from candidates to differentiate between “willing” and “interested.”
Reflections on TAC
Mark shared a “reflections on TAC” document. Quoting Tom Barton: “It may be a good moment in which to step back, take stock, and think about where TAC should go over the next year or so.”
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It would also be helpful to develop an InCommon elevator speech, although it may more likely be several elevator speeches. Kevin also mentioned the need for a strategic planning process with the community.