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WORKITEMSDESCRIPTIONCOMMENTASSIGNED TOSTART DATEEND DATESTATUS                    
REF15-1AREFEDS BOFS at appropriate meetings throughout the year.

First BoF held at APAN. 

Second BoF to be held as Townhall meeting with EWTI in Vienna.

Nicole Harris / Licia Florio01/201512/2015
Status
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titleIN PROGRESS
REF15-1B

Replace refeds.org website.

New framework proposed to SC, ready for implementation work.

Nicole Harris / Licia Florio03/201506/2015Green
Status
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titleIN PROGRESSCOMPLETE
REF15-1CMaintain and develop the REFEDS blog.

Ongoing. 

Nicole Harris / Licia Florio02/201512/2015
Status
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titleIN PROGRESS
REF15-1DREFEDS annual meetings.TNC15 (REFEDS birthday) and I2 TechX.Nicole Harris / Licia Florio02/201512/2015
Status
colourGreenGrey
titleIN PROGRESSCOMPLETE
REF15-1EImplement 2015 REFEDS Survey.Work now implemented at compendium.terena.org.  Awaiting small edits on html pages before sending outSurvey distributed - collating responses.Nicole Harris / Licia Florio02/210503/2015colour
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GreentitleIN PROGRESSCOMPLETE
REF15-1FManage REFEDS contracts with third parties.

1 x contract with Ian Young. (done)
2 x contract with Heather Flanagan. (done)
1 x contract with YacoEmergya.

Nicole Harris / Licia Florio01/201503/2015
Status
titleCOMPLETE
REF15-1GManage REFEDS Sponsorships.Current sponsor list.Nicole Harris / Licia FlorioAs appropriateAs appropriate
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titleIN PROGRESSONGOING

REF15-2: Federation Operator Best Practice

Lead: Nicole Harris

AimAims:

  • To complete work on metadata registration, publication and federation key management documentation and to feed in for dissemination and use within the GÉANT project (GN4) harmonisation task.  
  • To maintain and monitor use of existing entity categories.
  • To shepherd proposals for 2-3 new entity categories (library / affiliation and academic) through to conclusion.
  • To carry out a lightweight review of contacts in metadata. 
  • To liaise and work with projects focusing on assurance profiles
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REF15-2ADocumentation for 3 federation operator practice statements.MRPS work underway - needs summary and pushing back out. Nicole Harris01/201512/2015
Status
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titleIN PROGRESS
REF15-2B

Report on uptake of R&S and Hide from Discovery Entity Categories.

Work will not start until last quarterFigures now being collated. Nicole Harris10/201512/2015
Status
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titleNOT STARTEDIN PROGRESS
REF15-2CDevelop supporting material for Entity Categories focused on risk assessment.

To doInitial guidelines on release implemented on wiki.  Looking at a small leaflet to support promotional work.

Nicole Harris04/201506/2015
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titleNOT STARTEDcomplete
REF15-2DConsultations for new Entity Categories. Academia currently under discussionconsultation completed.  Affiliation to be discussed. Nicole Harris04/201509/2015
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titleNOT STARTEDCOMPLETE
REF15-2EComplete survey / review on how contacts in metadata are being used / implemented.To doWork now included in SIRTFI work planning.Nicole Harris07/210508/2015
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titleNOT STARTEDCOMPLETE

REF15-3: Virtual Organisations and Groups

Lead: Licia Florio

AimAims:

  • To provide supporting material for organisations carrying out a needs assessment for VO / group management usage. 
  • To support the standardisation of namespace usage by VOs / attribute authorities. 
WORKITEMSDESCRIPTIONCOMMENTASSIGNED TOSTART DATEEND DATESTATUS                    
REF15-3AUpdate of VO / group management needs assessment documents. Available on the REFEDS wiki.Heather Flanagan04/201512/2015
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titleNOT STARTEDCOMPLETE
REF15-3B

VO / Groups Problem Statement Document

 Overview presented at Cleveland meeting, paper to be prepared.

Heather Flanagan04/201512/2015
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titleNOT STARTEDIN PROGRESS
REF15-3C  Value Proposition of federations for VOs document.

 Draft available on REFEDS wiki. Seeking further commentary.

Heather Flanagan04/201512/2015
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titleNOT STARTEDIN PROGRESS
REF15-3D3 x conference call to discuss namespace requirements. Work postponed until 2016.Licia Florio04/201512/2015
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titleNOT STARTEDPOSTPONED
REF15-3EDraft proposal on standardising namespace for groups.  Work postponed until 2016.Licia Florio04/210512/2015
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titleNOT STARTEDPOSTPONED

REF15-4: REFEDS Services and Monitoring.

Lead: Licia Florio

AimAims:

  • To provide support for existing REFEDS pilots as well as for the new ones
  • To define a lightweight process for federation operators to work together on incident response management
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REF15-4AREEP Operations.Discussion with Yaco ongoing. New contract with Emergya delivered, LF working to evaluate deliverables to date and make proposals moving forward.Licia Florio01/201512/2015
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titleIN PROGRESS
REF15-4B

Operational version of MET.

GARR working on final service version, inc updates to MET code and hosting.  Need ot put small SLA in place with GARR for availability.

Nicole Harris02/201506/2015Green
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titleIN PROGRESSCOMPLETE
REF15-4CLiaison work with Fed Lab.

Cross GN4-AARC-REFEDS-KANTARA Work area kicked off.

 

Funding proposal to REFEDS receivedTo do. 

Licia FlorioNicole Harris04/201512/2015
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titleNOT STARTEDIN PROGRESS
REF15-4DIncident Response Framework.To do.

Initial charter and workplan for SIRTFI circulated with stakeholders. 

Consultation out

Licia Florio / Nicole HarrisLicia Florio04/201512/2015
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REF15-5: Standards and Harmonisation

Lead: Nicole Harris

AimAims:

  • To provide support for the development of standards and specifications under the REFEDS banner.
  • To pilot specification work to support implementation requirements.
  • To put in place structures to ensure specification and schema sustainability. 

Work Items / Milestones:

  • Federation at scale: work to pilot the Metadata Query Protocol within multiple federations and report on readiness to manage more complex metadata management. 
  • Federation at scale: review of further work needed to support large-scale metadata management, including discovery.
    • SAML Entity Categories: finalising RFC for core documentation
    • . 
    SCHAC development and sustainability.
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    REF15-5A

    Federation at scale: work to pilot the Metadata Query Protocol within multiple federations and report on readiness to manage more complex metadata management.

    		New contract in place with Ian.Ian Young02/201512/2015
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    titleIN PROGRESS
    REF15-5B

    Federation at scale: review of further work needed to support large-scale metadata management, including discovery.

    To do.

    		Nicole Harris02/201506/2015
    Status
    titleNOT STARTEDPOSTPONED
    REF15-5C

    SAML Entity Categories: finalising RFC for core documentation.

    New contract in place with Ian.  New version of the document ready to be released before end 2015.

    		Ian Young04/201512/2015
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    REF15-5DSCHAC development and sustainability.New All work on updating SCHAC documentation now complete.  Not enough work to consider adding a further contract in place with Heather.Heather Flanagan01/201506/2015
    Status
    titleNOT STARTEDCOMPLETE

    REF14-6: Specialist Working Groups

    Lead: According to WG Chair

    Aim:

    • To provide infrastructure and support for evolving ideas and areas in the REFEDS community. 
    WORKITEMSDESCRIPTIONCOMMENTASSIGNED TOSTART DATEEND DATESTATUS                    
    REF15-6A

    FOG: Federation Operators Group

    		Ongoing operation as usual.Peter Schober01/201512/2015
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    titleIN PROGRESS
    REF15-6B

    MARI: Manging Attribute Release in Interfederation use cases

    Not started yetOn hold pending further discussions.  Recommendation not to continue with this group.

    		Ken Klingenstein01/201512/2015
    Status
    titleNOT STARTEDCANCELLED
    REF15-6C

    OIDC(re): OpenID Connect for Research and Education

    Not started yet.  Roland H working on workplans. 

    		Roland Hedberg04/201512/2015
    Status
    titleNOT STARTEDMOVE TO 2016
    REF15-6DSIRTFIWork developing well, continuing to support.  Work to push out via RFC?Nicole Harris04/201512/2015
    Status
    colourGreen
    titleIN PROGRESS