REFEDS Steering Committee Notes, 19th February 2015

Attendees

The meeting will take place at 15:00 CET on 19th February 2015 via Skype.

In attendance: Licia Florio,Nicole Harris, Valter Nordh, Thomas Leggenhager, Miro Milonovic, Ken Klingenstein, Jean-Francois Guezou.
Apologies: Andrew Cormack.

Proposed Agenda Items

  • Updates on the sponsorship (for information), LF

  • The sponsorship is progressing well. To date we have:

    • ISOC - PLATINUM

    • NORDUNET - PLATINUM 

    • I2/InCommon - PLATINUM

    • GARR - PLATINUM (some of their sponsorship will be devoted to update and operate the Metadata Explorer Tool, MET)

    • RENATER - GOLD

    • SURFnet - GOLD

    • SWITCH - GOLD

    • Australian Access Federation (AAF) - BRONZE

    • RedIRIS - SILVER

    • CANARIE REFEDS Level to be confirmed yet

    • LIGO - SILVER (in the process)

We will be able to continue with the workplan as proposed based on this funding. 

The SC agreed with the changes to the participants agreement, with one abstention. 

Contracts have been put in place for Ian Young and Heather Flanagan (for SCHAC) already.  We would also like to have a contract with Heather regarding the group management work. Licia updated the SC on conversations with GARR on MET - they have offered to work on MET as part of their sponsorship.  This should be reflected in the workplan.

Miro asked about the role of federation lab and where this work is and should be happening.  NH gave a brief update on how this work was spread across GN4 SA and JRA and in the REFEDS workplan.  NH will send an update on this when she knows more about the budget for GN4. 

  • How to proceed with the Metadata registration practice (for discussion)

There is not enough feedback on the MRPS to recommend taking this forward as a REFEDS doc (only 4 federations).  What needs to be done to take this forward?  NH can summarise where we are and give an update and ask for further feedback. 

  • New Survey update, NH.
  • REFEDS birthday plans, NH.  
  • Data Protection Issues - VN.

VN gave an update on discussions with eIDAS and the EC around consent mechanisms and how we are managing the process - both projects are taking different approaches - eIDAS is able to more heavily rely on consent.  The current proposals for the International CoCo doesn't scale.  Changes will be coming but it will take a long time to come through with the new regulations in place. We need to keep working on this and try ti find a way forward.

Actions:

SCM20150219-01: LF to talk to Japan, DFN, BELNET and UK in terms of federations.
SCM20150219-02: LF to also approach relevant companies: Kantara, OpenID Foundation, Ping?
SCM20150219-03: LF to send an email to the SC regarding ongoing membership of Kantara. 
SCM20150219-04: NH and LF to take forward discussions on how to better integrate eduPerson and SCHAC.
SCM20150219-05: More recent updates on MET to be added to the workplan.
SCM20150219-06: LF / NH to send the updated participants agreement to the REFEDS list and update on the website. 
SCM20150219-07: NH to push the MRPS back out to the REFEDS list with the summary responses so far and point out that we need more.  NH to also push to edugain list.
SCM20150219-08: ALL to support conversation on REFEDS list re: MRPS. 
SCM20150219-09: ALL look at compendium survey and give Nicole feedback.
SCM20150219-10: LF to send a Foodle for another call with TIC.
SCM20150219-11: NH and KJK to work on reviving the MARI conversation.

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