Assurance Call of July 8, 2015
Attending
Jacob Farmer, Indiana University
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Emily Eisbruch, Internet2
Discussion
Introductions and Q&A with Paul Caskey and Nick Roy
new Internet2 staff members (see the blog)
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Paul was previously with University of Texas System
Helped develop and manage the University of Texas System Identity Federation
Identity Assurance has been important to Paul for many years.
Paul now located at the Internet2 / Unizen office in Austin.
Looks forward to working with the community to help spin up new working groups, including work on interfederation.
Also responsible for the InCommon Certificate Service
Ann West comments
- Internet2/InCommon is fortunate to have Nick and Paul
- Working on global interfederation will bring many opportunities
- Paul, as Trust Manager, will help us connect and access higher value services.
Ideas: Trust Elevation Gateway, Multi Factor Authentication Gateway, help SPs offer high value services
- The InCommon Federation Participant Operating Practices (POP) needs to be evolved. InCommon TAC Workgroup will look at that issue.
Comment: Great to have people of this caliber joining the InCommon team
MFA Interoperabiity Profile Working Group
Ann: Context Setting: Ann noted that she and Paul had a recent discussion with LaChelle LeVan of FICAM. LaChelle is , an architect, replacing Anil John at FICAM.
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Jacob: The call for participation in the MFA Interoperability Profile Working Group got good an excellent response from the community. Forty people expressed interest in participating.
Jacob will be putting adding people who have contacted him on to the email list , which is mfa-interop@incommon.org
Jacob will be developing sub-groups to help chunk the work. Leaders will be needed for the subgroups. Hope for an organizational call for the working group the week of July 20.
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4. Develop and recommend scope and plan for adoption
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Paul: We will have another At an upcoming call with FICAM within a few weeks. We hope to get , we will work to ensure their input/representation on the MFA Interop Profile working group.
David Walker: Offer to present to the new MFA Interop WG the underlying technical infrastructure used for the Multi Context Broker.
Jacob Jacob: Agreed, that would be very helpful.
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Columbia appreciates the answers to questions that they posed on the Assurance list. In the future, they Columbia may have additional questions related to auditing for Silver Assurance. Potential to talk with Virginia Tech on that.
Eric, UCOP:
Wondering about definition of privacy for assurance. What does it mean to be privacy preserving?
Excited about the MFA work. UCOP is rolling out an application that needs MFA. Need ways to communicate whether MFA was done and when it was done.
Use case where MFA is desired but not required, where another approach is permitted
David: Time limits for authentication are an interesting use case
[AI: ] (Jacob) will bring the issue of ForceAuthn to the MFA Interop Profile Working Group.
Ann: Would be great helpful to have a conduit/liaison back to the CIC. Perhaps Brett, Jared, John can fill this role.