These are the proposed top-level areas for the 2022 workplan, drawn from proposals crowdsourced in late 2021 / early 2022.
REF22-1: REFEDS Coordination and ManagementLead: Nicole Harris |
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WORK ITEMS | DESCRIPTION | COMMENT | ASSIGNED TO | START DATE | END DATE | STATUS |
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REF22-1A | REFEDS BOFS at appropriate meetings throughout the year (maximum of 2). | Suggestions for where to target BOFs in 2022 welcomed. Proposal for an "unconference" style REFEDS meeting has been circulated to the community for discussion. | Nicole Harris | 01/22 | 12/22 | |
REF22-1B | Maintain and develop the REFEDS blog, wiki and website. | As normal. | Nicole Harris | 01/22 | 12/22 | |
REF22-1C | REFEDS annual meetings. | TNC and Internet2 Technology Exchange Meeting (if held; online if not) | Nicole Harris | 01/22 | 10/22 | |
REF22-1D | Implement 2022 REFEDS Survey and present results of 2021 survey. | Annual REFEDS Survey to go out in November 2022. | Nicole Harris | 09/22 | 12/22 | |
REF22-1E | Manage REFEDS contracts with third parties. | These are contracts with external parties that support REFEDS such as Spherical Cow Consulting and RETI. | Nicole Harris | 01/22 | 07/22 | |
REF22-1F | Manage REFEDS Sponsorships. | Current sponsor list. | Nicole Harris | 12/18 | 01/22 | |
REF22-1G | REFEDS Distinguished Engineer Programme. | On hold | Heather Flanagan | This is on hold until pandemic-related travel and conference concerns are sorted. |
REF22-2: Specialist Working GroupsLead: Heather Flanagan |
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WORK ITEMS | DESCRIPTION | ASSIGNED TO | START DATE | END DATE | GOALS | STATUS |
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REF22-2A | Peter Brand with support from Nicole Harris | 01/22 | 12/22 | This is an ongoing discussion group and as such has no specific goals. | ||
REF22-2B | SIRTFI | Tom Barton | 01/22 | 12/22 | Work on Sirtfi v2.0 and supporting guidance, then re-evaluate the remaining Phase 3 objectives in the work plan. Maybe this WG can wrap up in 2022! | |
REF22-2C | Assurance | Jule Ziegler | 01/22 | 12/22 |
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REF22-2D | Entity Category Support | Heather Flanagan | 01/22 | 12/22 | Harmonize the attribute release-related entity categories (Anonymous Authorization, Pseudonymous Authorization, and Personalized Access). | |
REF22-2E | Tom Barton and Judith Bush | 01/22 | 03/22 | Complete response to 2021 consultation. | ||
REF22-2F | SPOG: SP Operators Group | Laura Paglione | 01/22 | 12/22 | This is an ongoing discussion group and as such has no goals. | |
REF22-2G | REFEDS OIDCre | TBD | 03/22 | 12/22 | Continuation is still under discussion | |
REF22-2H | Future Protocols | TBD | 03/22 | 12/22 | A working group to look at existing specifications to determine if and how they can be changed to become more protocol agnostic. The goal is to allow enough flexibility to support SAML, OIDC, DIDs, and future undeveloped protocols. | |
REF22-2I | Best Practices for Integrating with Microsoft Azure | TBD | 03/22 | 12/22 | Many federation operators have reported challenges with integrating with Microsoft Azure platforms. This group would establish a community of individuals specifically interested in supporting each other with these integrations and would document best practices as they are developed. |
REF22-3: Promotion and CommunicationLead: Nicole Harris |
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REF22-3A | Set up a monthly / bimonthly set of webinars for REFEDS to help communicate work on core topics (6 topics, 12 webinars, 2 different timezones per webinar). This will help address the communication elements identified in the strategy. Support with a blogpost. Support with more social / chat sessions in the evenings for people to talk about their issues. Initial list of topics: REFEDS Survey, CoCo, Entity Categories, Microsoft, REFEDS resources, general federation maturity / baseline | Nicole Harris, Heather Flanagan | 01/22 | 12/22 |
REF22-4: Standards and SpecificationsLead: Heather Flanagan |
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REF22-4A | Schema Editorial Board with support from Heather Flanagan | 01/22 | 12/22 | Work items to include
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REF22-5: REFEDS ServicesLead: Nicole Harris |
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REF22-5A | MET: feature enhancements | Contractor | 01/22 | 12/22 |