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REF22-2: Specialist Working Groups

Lead: Heather Flanagan

Aim:

  • To provide infrastructure and support for evolving ideas and areas in the REFEDS community. 


WORK ITEMSDESCRIPTIONASSIGNED TOSTART DATEEND DATEGOALS                   STATUS
REF22-2A

FOG: Federation Operators Group

Peter
Schober
Brand with support from Nicole Harris01/2212/22This is an ongoing discussion group and as such has no specific goals.
REF22-2BSIRTFITom Barton01/2212/22

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!


REF22-2CAssuranceJule Ziegler01/2212/22
  • Work on RAF v2
  • Revisit and modernize the specifications (formal review).
  • Ensure test facilities are in place to enable adoption.

REF22-2DEntity Category SupportHeather Flanagan01/2212/22

Harmonize the attribute release-related entity categories (Anonymous Authorization, Pseudonymous Authorization, and Personalized Access).


REF22-2E

Federation Trust 2.0

Tom Barton and Judith Bush01/2203/22

Complete response to 2021 consultation.



REF22-2FSPOG: SP Operators GroupLaura Paglione01/2212/22This is an ongoing discussion group and as such has no goals.
REF22-2GREFEDS OIDCreTBD03/2212/22Continuation is still under discussion
REF22-2HFuture ProtocolsTBD03/2212/22A 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.
REF22-2IBest Practices for Integrating with Microsoft AzureTBD03/2212/22

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 Communication

Lead: Nicole Harris

Aims:

  • To provide materials and support mechanisms to help federations promote effective approaches to IdPs and SPs.
  • To provide feedback on documents produced by other groups to support clarity of messages.
  • To reach out to target groups where specific messaging could be beneficial.

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WORKITEMSDESCRIPTIONASSIGNED TOSTART DATEEND DATESTATUS                    
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 / baselineLast Thursday of every month.  (27th Jan 2022 - 16:00 CET, 24th February - APAN time, etc)


Nicole Harris, heather Heather Flanagan01/2212/22


REF22-4: Standards and Specifications

Lead: Heather Flanagan

Aims:

  • 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.

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