Notes from ACAMP Action Item Leads Call July 29, 2010
Attending:
Tom Barton, University of Chicago
Jonathan Markow, Jasig
Jens Haeusser, UBC
Renee Shuey, The Pennsylvania State University
Benn Oshrin, Internet2
Scott Cantor, The Ohio State University
Keith Hazelton, University of Wisconsin
Steven Carmody, Brown University
Celeste Copeland, UNC-Chapel Hill
Tom Zeller, University of Memphis
Chris Hyzer, University of Pennsylvania
Steve Olshansky, Internet2
Emily Eisbruch, Internet2 (scribe)
Action Items
[AI] (ACAMP Prog. Com.) will ask Leif if he would be willing to lead the action item to "Develop proposal for DNS-based IdP discovery"
[AI] (ACAMP Prog. Com.) will send an email to the entire ACAMP attendee list with a status/progress report and info on getting involved in the ongoing work.
[AI] (ACAMP Prog. Com.) will contact the leads who were not on this call (TimP, MarkS, ScottyL, EricW) to ensure sure they are on track.
[AI] (ReneeS) will create an agenda item on the next MACE call to talk about the best venue for the Developer's Guide work (being led by Scott Cantor).
Welcome and Overview
TomB and Jonathan welcomed the group.
Goal of call is for leads to have a clear plan for their assigned action item in the next 5 months.
The idea is to state a deliverable that fits within the timeframe of:
• mid Sept - progress call
• mid Nov - final and next steps call
At those milestones, the leads will be asked to report.
Leads should put a few sentences about Deliverables and Goals (and if possible, a timetable with milestones) on the page linked from their action item on the wiki.
https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/ACAMPActionItems/Home
The Program Committee will send an email to invite all ACAMP attendees to look at the wiki pages to monitor what's going on and get involved where possible. The wiki will be a good meeting place, a place to see the latest status.
Logistics
Do the leads on the call have what they need?
Keith requested an email list for policy engine list.
SteveO set up a list called polengine@internet2.edu
Two other leads already have set up email lists via SteveO. Others who would like an email list, please contact SteveO.
Action Items Needing Leads
Scott confirmed that he will be the lead for "Write Developer's Guide to Federating Applications."
Others will need to volunteer to lead the two other action items Scott had been temporarily assigned:
- Federate a Mobile App
and
- Develop proposal for DNS-based IdP discovery
Leif was a potential participant/collaborator for the DNS-based IdP discovery action item. Perhaps he will agree to lead that.
AI (ACAMP Prog. Com.) will ask Leif if he would be willing to lead the action item to "Develop proposal for DNS-based IdP discovery"
Reports from the Leads
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Scott
Action Item: "Write Developer's Guide to Federating Applications."
Scott's first steps are:
• Identify a home for the effort and solicit participation.
• Develop an outline for the material and an authoring process.
Scott has begun to list potential topics on the wiki:
Scott wants others to share in the work, but first he wants to decide on the ultimate venue for the Developer's Guide and and determine where the material should live while it's being developed. Spaces wiki is one possibility.
There is material in the Shib wiki that would be better removed from there and placed in this guide, with pointers to it from the Shib area.
Scott plans the guide to be more descriptive than prescriptive. Goal is to be inclusive of various ways of doing things.
Scott said that he hopes to get the topic of a "home" for the effort on the MACE agenda.
[AI] (ReneeS) will create an agenda item on the next MACE call to talk about the best venue for the Developer's Guide work.
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Celeste
Action Item: Case study of UNC-Chapel Hill's SPML implementation
Celeste reported that she now has a firm plan for a pilot effort. She is primarily looking for onlookers and commenters. Keith stated that Brad Schwoerer from U. Wisc is highly interested in becoming involved.
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ReneeS
Action Item: Revise the InCommon Silver IAP
Renee reported that this effort is supported by the InCommon Technical Advisory Committee and by the CIC. TomB and Renee have agreed to look at the InCommon Silver Profile and rewrite it in a way that will more useful for the Higher Ed and Auditing Community.
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Keith
Action Item: Assess Various Policy Engines Using MACE-paccman benchmark use cases
Keith has established these Deliverables/Goals:
- List of Policy Engines that will be evaluated
- Selection of benchmark use cases from MACE-Paccman to be run
- Report on Evaluations including lessons learned, suggested next steps
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TomB
Action Item: Define a Standard API For Groups
It was noted that though this was assigned to Tom, Chris was present at the discussion on this at ACAMP. Chris reported that the plan is to discuss this with the Grouper Dev team, consult with the MACE-paccman list, and develop a standard API. Possibly requirements will emerge from the four VOs on the SDCI grant.
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Chris
Action Item: Develop capabilities in Grouper for federated group management similar to COmanage
Two things discussed about this at Advanced CAMP:
1. Manage external subject similar to how COmanage does it
2. Sync groups between instances of Grouper
Chris developed ideas on this at:
https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/GrouperWG/Grouper+external+users
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TomZ
Action Item: Determine how federated provisioning should work and participate in SPML standards work to support it .
TomZ has developed this plan:
To Do:
- Gather participants.
- Agree on deliverables, especially regarding federated provisioning standards.
Deliverables:
- Glossary of provisioning terminology based on SPMLv2 - quick win ?
- Survey of provisioning software currently in use via ACAMP or educause - quick win ?
- Classic provisioning software - by next I2MM or ACAMP ?
- Federated provisioning software - ?
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Benn
Action Item: Determine next steps for promotion of open source IdM Products
Benn's plan is:
Identify and begin executing a strategy for the promotion of OSS IDM products, ie the OSS IDM suite especially for (but not exclusively for) Higher Ed
• ACAMP Call 2 (Mid Sept): Strategy outline, defined objectives, initial deliverables TBD
• Jasig Unconference: F2F Meeting
• I2MM: F2F Meeting
• ACAMP Call 3 (Mid Nov): Plan for outreach, resourcing, sustained action, second step deliverables TBD
Ben has provided more info at :
https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/ACAMPActionItems/ACAMP2010-PromotingOpenSourceProducts
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Steven
Action Item: Document and promulgate best practice for sharing Google docs with federated users.
Steven will begin work on this and will keep the group informed.
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Fall Member Meeting Track Session
TomB suggested a FMM 2010 track session on some of the cutting edge ideas coming out of ACAMP. The group agreed, and TomB went on to submit a middleware track session to be called "The Bleeding Edge of Identity Management."
Coordination of Efforts Moving Forward
[AI] (ACAMP Prog. Com.) will send an email to the entire ACAMP attendee list with a status/progress report and info on getting involved in the ongoing work.
[AI] (ACAMP Prog. Com.) will contact the leads who were not on this call (TimP, MarkS, ScottyL, EricW) to ensure sure they are on track.
The program committee thanks the leads for all their efforts and requests that the leads keep in touch concerning any logistical needs, obstacles, etc.
Proposed Date for the mid-Sept Progress Call:
Thurs., Sept 23.
More details to follow.