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| Title | VO Assessment |
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| Description | Several years ago, the COmanage project put together a questionnaire aimed at helping both the VO and the organizations supporting them understand their IdM needs and business processes. This proved to be fairly useful, but it needs to be updated and expanded to help a more international audience. The old assessment is available off the COmanage wiki, hosted by Internet2. |
| Proposer | Heather Flanagan |
| Resource requirements | Some effort (probably not a huge amount), maybe support for a survey, and kittens |
| +1's | Niels (both with SURFnet as well as GEANT SA5 VOpaas hat on) |
| Title | edugain recommended practices |
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| Description | With edugain gaining steam, national Feds are trying different approaches to managing import, export, and filtering. This activity would review an early harvest of national Fed experiences and produce recommended practices that national Feds can use to produce a more consistent experience for IdPs and SPs, and hence for users. |
| Proposer | Tom Barton |
| Resource requirements | Perhaps 6 conference calls for a working group to organize, gather materials, net out essential recommendations. Someone to edit a resulting doc. Email list support. |
| +1's |
| Title | Federation at scale |
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| Description | Determine next steps towards dynamic resolution of entity metadata. The assumption is that this is how metadata will eventually be obtained at transaction time. This activity might focus on furthering the development and experimentation with protocols and implementations for so doing, or on how metadata comes to be sourced for dynamic resolution, or on identifying criteria by which to assess that a given dynamic resolution mechanism is working well. The purpose is to gain further experience and not necessarily to attempt anything definitive as yet. |
| Proposer | Tom Barton |
| Resource requirements | This one might have some hard resource needs. Some development. An environment in which to try things out, somehow including IdP or SP instances with which to experiment. |
| +1's |
| Title | Focus on VOs |
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| Description | VOs straddle national Feds and we handle them in an ad hoc (at best!) fashion. What practices should the interfed community adopt to support their Fed/Interfed needs? Deliverables might include strawman recommended practices to national Feds and roles & responsibilities that together would define a consistent service presented to VOs. The purpose would be to inform ourselves of what it might actually take to operationalize such a service. Could build on the VO Assessment activity proposed by Heather above. |
| Proposer | Tom Barton |
| Resource requirements | A few working group members to interview principals from several VOs or other organizations that support them or otherwise are knowledgeable about needs from a VO perspective (eg, Center for Trustworthy Scientific Cyberinfrastructure). A few Fed Ops to mull this over from an operational perspective. Someone to edit a resulting doc. |
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| Title | Privacy and interfed |
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| Description | Is the CoC on track? What barriers are there to its adoption? Purpose is to determine what issues a communications campaign should address to improve uptake. |
| Proposer | Tom Barton |
| Resource requirements | Working Group would conduct interviews with a selection of prospective CoC adopting sites, blend with CoC knowledgeable expert and a communications person to arrive at an enumeration of concerns to be addressed. Perhaps a dozen Working Group conference calls and list support. Support for a small number of group interviews. |
| +1's |
| Title | Focus on R&S adoption |
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| Description | What is needed to jump start R&S programs in more national Feds? Produce recommendations, possibly including training, template processes and communication materials, live exchanges between Feds with established practices and others getting ready to dig into it. |
| Proposer | Ann West (communicated by Tom Barton, as version history will attest) |
| Resource requirements | Working Group with representation from a couple of national Feds already doing R&S with a couple not quite there yet. Maybe 6 conference calls and list support. Could lead to a further event programming activity. |
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