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Minutes: Nat'l K-12 Federated IAM Task Force Call of 21-Aug-2013

Attending
Steve Olshansky, Internet2 (Chair)
Karen  Billings, SIIA
Mark Scheible, MCNC
Mike Danahy, Educational Service Unit  2, Fremont, Nebraska
Denise Shorey, CoSN  
Stephan Papadopulos, DC Government
James Werle, Internet2  
Emily Eisbruch, Internet2 (scribe)

New Action Items

\[AI\] (SteveO) will reach out to Lee Cummings around his retirement, urging him to stay involved, and potentially updating his email address
\[AI\] (SteveO) will send a note to the list to start FAQs around K12 data privacy issues.

Carry Over Action Items

\[AI\] (SteveO) schedule a follow-up phone call with Karen to discuss consultation on K12Person Directory Schema (DONE)
\[AI\] (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
\[AI\] (Lee) will create a case study from a district perspective (started)
\[AI\] (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
Quilt/InCommon K-12 Federation Pilots: Updatehttps://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/InCQuiltFed/Home

Nebraska Pilot Update
Mike Danahy reported on the Nebraska Pilot project
-with the start of school, identity management issues were on the back burner for about 2-3 weeks
-overall there is a lot of enthusiasm in Nebraska around Identity management
-there is a statewide initiative, an Ed-Fi enabled data center, and IdM will be a major part of that
-Nebraska Educational Service Unit Coordinating Council has contracted for assistance with Gluu (gluu.org).
-Gluu will put up a server once the LDAP information is entered.
-About 20 people from Nebraska (including from both Higher Ed and K12) will attend Shibboleth training soon.

MCNC Pilot Update
-Mark reported on the MCNC pilot.
-The focus is on getting a community college running an IDP and putting up SP's for resources to be used by high school students in an early college program.  
-The K12 institutions involved already have an IdP in place.

Mark also reported on the Race to the Top program in North Carolina, the NC Education Cloud projecthttp://cloud.fi.ncsu.edu/
-this project also involves IAM and Federation
-MCNC is working with a vendor to build a cloud service for all of K12 in NC.
-Also the Dept .of Public Instruction in NC is replacing their student system. They are Converting to Pearson, and will be running PowerSchool and other modules
-The districts will be aggregated into a Pearson Operational Data Store (ODS)

Review purpose/goals/role and future direction of this group

Important questions include:
- How can we support or complement the Quilt/InCommon efforts?
- Outreach to key constituencies
- regionals, state DoEd, early adopter districts, vendors, thought leaders
 
The expectation is that valuable use cases  will emerge from the current pilots.
What work products should this group be focusing on?

It was agreed that there is growing interest from many districts in IdM.
Denise noted that the "Primer on K12 Federated IdM" is a valuable tool and seems to be getting quite a bit of usage.
 
Karen suggested that the SIIA website could link to the Primer, and it was agreed that this is a good idea.
It was noted that currently  some items are being reorganized on the CoSN website.

It would be helpful if the CoSN website had a prominent link to the wiki for the InCommon Quilt pilots:https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/InCQuiltFed/Home
FAQs around Data Privacy Issues for K12

A topic of interest is data privacy, around K12 student data and test score data.
Districts want guidance in this area.
It was agreed it would be helpful for this group to develop an FAQ to address data privacy issues.
First step would be to start a list of questions that are coming from parents and districts.
It was noted that CoSN has the relationships with the K12 community to collect real questions that are being asked.

\[AI\] (SteveO) will send a note to the list to start FAQs around K12 data privacy issues.

Next Call : 3:00 PM EDT Wed. 18-September (3rd Wed.)

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LINK TO WIKI https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/K12FedIAMTF/Home

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