CTAB Call of January 9, 2024

Attending

• Warren Anderson, LIGO

• Pål Axelsson, SUNET

• David Bantz, University of Alaska (chair) 

• Tom Barton, Internet2, ex-officio
• Richard Frovarp,  North Dakota State

• Mike Grady, Unicon 

• Scott Green, Eastern Washington University
• Christopher Keith, Brown University

• Kyle Lewis,  Research Data and Communication Technologies
• Ryan McDaniel, Virginia Tech

• Jon Miner, University of Wisc - Madison (co-chair)

• Ann West, Internet2
Albert Wu, Internet2  
• Johnny Lasker, Internet2

• Emily Eisbruch, Independent, scribe 

Regrets

• Matt Eisenberg, NIAID
• Ercan Elibol, Florida Polytechnic University
• Rick Wagner, UCSD
• Kevin Morooney, Internet2 

Discussion

• Internet2  Intellectual Property reminder
• Agenda Bash
• Welcome to 2024 - (re)introductions

InCommon Futures Report (Ann)

• • In 2023, InCommon Steering put together a group to do futures planning
  • Changes will be needed across the community in the coming years
  • Motivated by many factors including changes prompted by COVID, changes to vendor offerings, etc. 
  • Some of the issues to consider include
    • Attribute release issues 
    • Access management
    • Expanding eduroam, where do we stand on that as a community
    • Increasing use of Azure
    • Vendor use vs open source
    • Infrastructure 
  • InCommon worked with Second Muse over past 6 months to look at trends and needs; the resulting draft report is now in review
  • InCommon Steering is pleased with the InCommon Futures draft report
  • Hoping to get feedback on the draft report from CTAB
  • Ann will send (after this call) the PDF report and a google doc to provide comments
  • InCommon will work with Second Muse to produce a final version 
  • Please provide comments on the draft report by end of day Thursday, Jan. 11
  • Office Hours are planned for this Friday, Jan. 12, for sharing across advisory groups
  • There will be work to do in supporting the outcomes from the InCommon Futures report. 

Brief recap of CTAB work process (Albert)

• • There will be a separate orientation for new committee members
  • CTAB focuses on policies and practices side of InCommon Federation
  • It’s an advisory committee chartered by InCommon Steering
  • CTAB provides a community voice
  • Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation is key to CTAB’s work
  • To further trust and interoperability
  • At start of the year, a CTAB work plan is developed
  • Hope to continue looking at 6 month chunks for planned work, first half and second half of year
  • Work formats can be: subgroup of CTAB, OR spin up a formal committee/ working group (example is the SIRTFI working group), 
  • Subgroups or working groups provide reports of their work
  • CTAB makes adjustments for 2nd half of year
  • Starting in September, CTAB focuses more time on recruiting new CTAB members for the next year
  • CTAB terms are for 3 years
  • Major Internet2 conference for CTAB is: TechEx (usually September or December). In 2024, TechEx will be in December
  • David: CTAB tries to listen for and be responsive to needs in the research and education community.  What would enable more secure access and sharing of resources within research and education?
  • CTAB Charter http://doi.org/10.26869/TI.94.1

• Proposed Subject Matter Experts for CTAB (David)
  • These individuals have expressed an interest:
    • Kenneth Gray (U of Michigan; interested in Identity Assurance)
    • Laura Paglione (SCG https://scgcollaborationgroup.com/ ; interested in Identity Assurance and Futures 2.0 work)

Committee Updates

• • CACTI (Richard)
    • Extensive discussion about the Next Generation Credentials Working Group report
      • Adding a cover letter and further clarification
      • To be used to drive next steps in the community
      • Finalizing the report for CACTI acceptance
    • Discussion around the browser changes
      • Google Chrome turning off 3rd party cookies
        • If a service doesn't work in Firefox, it likely won't work in Chrome / Edge when this is completed.
      • FedCM discussion
        
        
  • SIRTFI Exercise Planning Working Group 2024
    • Call for volunteers released; prepping kickoff in Feb 2024
      
      
      

Review 2023 CTAB Accomplishments Report Draft (David)
 

• Highlights of CTAB work in 2023
  • SIRTFI Exercise Working Group
  • Response to NSF on new NIST 800-63 revision
  • Wrapping up / operationalizing Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation
  •   Developed ongoing automated tests around Baseline Expectations, for example around TLS endpoints, including some self service tools for site admins, improvements around maintaining correct email contacts for InCommon Federation contacts
  • Working to define next steps, previously there has been strong emphasis on authentication, but a lot of value in federation is around roles and functions (different levels of authorizations/entitlements)
    
    

2024 CTAB Work Plan (David)

• Please review and add to the 2024 CTAB  work plan
• Mike Grady emailed  CTAB in November 2023 with some pain points  
  ("problem experiences" with SPs and InCommon metadata) that he sees
  
• Mike will turn the info in that email into  a document

Next CTAB Call: Tuesday, January 23, 2024