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Teleconferences
Weekly teleconference time: Tuesday 12-1pm Central Time
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Agenda for next call:
- LeifJ intro to Project Mario
- Take-aways from Friday's TAC Community Update webinar
- New Use Cases: InCommon member publishing journal with intl subscriptions, interfed with state agencies
- Canonical Interfed Use Case
- JohnK's Drawing about LIGO use case
- Update on LIGO-Cardiff pilot
- Update on SteveC's test deployment of MDA code at Brown
- "trigger a discussion about what we think SHOULD be done"
- Big picture discussion:
- What is interfederation?
- What are the hurdles we need to overcome to achieve interfederation?
- What metadata aggregates are needed for interfederation?
Mailing list
Posting address: interfed@incommon.org (subscribe or unsubscribe)
Archives: https://lists.incommon.org/sympa/arc/interfed
List homepage: https://lists.incommon.org/sympa/info/interfed
General information about InCommon mailing lists: https://lists.incommon.org/sympa/help/introduction
Mission
The mission of the InCommon TAC Interfederation Subcommittee (hereafter: “the subcommittee”) is to promote and pursue interfederation between the InCommon Federation and other SAML federations via a community-based process. The subcommittee makes recommendations to the InCommon Technical Advisory Committee, and members of the subcommittee interact with members and operators of other SAML federations to draft agreements and common practices. REFEDS is the preferred forum for cross-federation discussions, and InCommon-specific discussions take place on the subcommittee mailing list and on subcommittee phone calls. The subcommittee does not make agreements on behalf of InCommon or represent InCommon in any official capacity. Both policy and technical aspects of interfederation are in scope for the subcommittee.
Membership
Membership in the subcommittee is open to all interested parties. Members join the subcommittee by joining the mailing list, phone calls, and otherwise participating actively in the work of the subcommittee.
The chair of the subcommittee is appointed by the InCommon TAC and is responsible for keeping the TAC informed regarding subcommittee status.
Deliverables
- Documentation of InCommon community interfederation use cases and timelines, including the international collaborations of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project.
- Documentation of plans and/or issues for interfederation with UK Access Management Federation, Australian Access Federation, Canadian Access Federation, eduGAIN, and other federations of interest to the InCommon community.
- Documentation of lessons learned, recommendations, and potential future work areas/items for InCommon to consider on the topic of interfederation.
- Work summary to TAC at end of work.
Expected End Date
The subcommittee is expected to complete all deliverables and either close or recharter by June 28, 2013.
Use Cases
Please contribute use cases on the Interfederation Use Cases page.
References
Here we keep a list of relevant links and references. Feel free to add.
- Jan 2013 CTSC and LIGO Collaborate on Interfederation
- Feb 2013 Quilt/InCommon Federation Workshop: extend InCommon Federation Services to K-12 (and potentially other CAIs) in collaboration with regional networks
- UK federation interfederation trial FAQ
- Ian's explanation of the UK federation's interfederation technology
- REFEDS wiki contains REFEDS 2013 workplan and planning documents.
- National K–12 Federated Identity and Access Management Task Force
- K-12 Roadmap
- Shibboleth Metadata Aggregator (MDA)
- http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/fiwg/Federation+Interoperability+Patterns
- Geant Code of Conduct
- COUNTER Code of Practice (related to journal publisher use case)