TAC Meeting 2016-01-07
Thursday, January 7, 2016
1:00pm ET | 12:00pm CT | 11:00am MT | 10:00am PT
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Agenda
- Review carryover action items below
Acceptance of minutes from TAC Meeting 2015-12-17
Quick updates:
- eduGAIN metadata will be imported into the preview aggregate on Jan 15
- Export Status Report (2016-01-07)
- Shibboleth IdP V3
- InCommon Shib IdP Summary Report (2016-01-06)
- Global Shib IdP Deployments (2016-01-06)
- TAC Membership
- IAM Online Promo - 2016-01-27
- (your agenda item here)
Informational Items
- Research & Scholarship activity since December 17, 2015
- EDUCAUSE Website applied for R&S on January 7, 2016 (pending)
Carryover Action Items
- Steve Carmody will draft a wiki page outlining the steps involved in creating a category
- John Krienke will implement a policy review regarding whether SP registration of keys could be made optional. <= Ann West will review and determine whether to keep this on the list
- Steve, Ann, Dean and Michael will draft a proposal to address TAC member responsibilities, TAC transparency, and related processes.
Steve Carmody will send email looking for a chair for the MD Distribution WG
Tom Barton will develop a WG charter re: how to coordinate incident response
Paul Caskey will take charge of the goal “Making Federation Easier”
Steven Carmody and Michael Gettes will develop a short white paper to document the requirements and goals related to attribute release.
- Those on the TAC call voted to accept the External Identities WG report. Steve Carmody will send email to the TAC list asking for confirmation from those not on the call, and also include information about next steps.
Ann West will develop a service-level agreement concerning the IdP of Last Resort for Leif Johannson and UnitedID
- Steve Zoppi, Steve Carmody, and Paul Caskey will come back to TAC in two weeks with a proposal concerning "making Shib easier;" specifically about how to leverage work already done through TIER to attract schools and individuals willing to commit to development help.
Tom Scavo will ensure that “per-entity metadata” is in the 2016 TAC work plan.
Tom Barton will sketch some comments about how to approach the proposed draft TAC charter.
TAC is asked to provide feedback on the draft charter for the Containerization/East of Deployment Working Group and ensure that it meets the needs of the federation.
Tom Barton will develop a recommendation as to whether the TAC working group chartering process would be a useful process for developing a containerization working group in conjunction with TIER.
Steve Carmody will talk with those who brought the containerization WG concept to TAC and seek a tighter scoping of the concept.
Tom Barton will talk with Chris Hyzer about potentially participating in a containerization working group.
Nick will reply to Sir-T-Fi consultation list that this is something InCommon would encourage participants to adopt.(DONE)Keith will submit an item for the REFEDS 2016 work plan concerning portability of IDs as part of IdPs of last resort.
Tom Scavo will run a comparison of the 47 SAML1-only SPs in the InCommon with the SAML1-only SPs currently in eduGAIN metadata.
Minutes
Attending: Ian Young, Michael Gettes, Jim Jokl, Chris Misra, Scott Cantor, Mike LaHaye, Keith Hazelton, Jim Basney, David Walker, Steve Olshansky
With: Tom Scavo, Paul Caskey, Nick Roy
Approved Dec. 17, 2015, minutes
Updates
As of January 4, 2016, Kevin Morooney is the new Internet2 vice president for trust and identity, with responsibility for both InCommon and TIER.
eduGAIN - We are coming up on next milestone for the eduGAIN rollout. InCommon will import eduGAIN metadata to the preview aggregate starting January 15. Tom Scavo is sending a note to site admins about the import and asking them to point test deployments at the preview aggregate
Metadata aggregator software - Ian did a tooling update on the eduGAIN aggregator software based on the Shibboleth metadata aggregator update
Tom S has started tracking IdPs that are opting out and SPs opting in to eduGAIN and shared the latest report (7 IdPs have opted out and 26 SPs have opted in). Tom has contacted some site admins with questions about their choices, mainly to see if there is confusion among site admins..
Shibboleth IdPv3 - Tom S. shared a report that includes the number of IdPs running Shib v3 and the number on v2. He will run this summary regularly and post it to a wiki page.
Operations Working Group
TAC agreed to immediately proceed with chartering a standing working group focused on operations, consisting of TAC members and subject-matter experts.
TAC Membership
TAC continued the discussion from Dec. 17, 2015, concerning how TAC will be constituted under the new charter and how members will be nominated and appointed. A proposal was floated on December 17, but there was no consensus.
Steve Carmody sent notices in mid-December and again in early January requesting nominations for potential TAC members from the community. The deadline for nominations is January 20, 2016, and TAC members are encouraged to contact people they know who might be interested and qualified. TAC agreed that the full list of nominees will be sent to Steering, noting which nominees TAC recommends for appointment.
TAC voted to adopt the following method for constituting TAC membership for 2016:
- One-third of the current TAC membership are not eligible for membership, based on the new charter (David Walker, Mike LaHaye, Ian Young, Ken Klingenstein) and will roll off of TAC
- New appointees will comprise one-third of TAC membership and be appointed to three-year terms
- Current TAC members wishing to continue will be assigned to one- and two-year terms.
- Current TAC members will review the pool of applicants and choose a set of people to forward to Steering. This process should facilitate a continuity and steady evolution to the new model (e.g. strike a balance between new and old members), while seeking broader representation.
TAC members are also asked to nominate people to serve on TAC as subject-matter experts by sending nominees and any supporting information to nominations@incommon.org by January 20. These appointments will be subject to a vote by TAC.
(AI) Dean contact each current TAC member to determine their interested in continuing, as well a whether they have a preference for either a one- or two-year term. TAC members should not feel pressure to remain on TAC. Dean will report back to TAC by January 20.
(AI) David will send the list of nominations to TAC by the end of the day January 20.