These are the final top level areas for the 2015 workplan.
REF15-1: REFEDS Coordination and ManagementLead: Licia Florio / Nicole Harris |
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Aims:
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WORKITEMS | DESCRIPTION | COMMENT | ASSIGNED TO | START DATE | END DATE | STATUS |
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REF15-1A | REFEDS 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 Florio | 01/2015 | 12/2015 | IN PROGRESS |
REF15-1B | Replace refeds.org website. | New framework proposed to SC, ready for implementation work. | Nicole Harris / Licia Florio | 03/2015 | 06/2015 | COMPLETE |
REF15-1C | Maintain and develop the REFEDS blog. | Ongoing. | Nicole Harris / Licia Florio | 02/2015 | 12/2015 | IN PROGRESS |
REF15-1D | REFEDS annual meetings. | TNC15 (REFEDS birthday) and I2 TechX. | Nicole Harris / Licia Florio | 02/2015 | 12/2015 | COMPLETE |
REF15-1E | Implement 2015 REFEDS Survey. | Survey distributed - collating responses. | Nicole Harris / Licia Florio | 02/2105 | 03/2015 | COMPLETE |
REF15-1F | Manage REFEDS contracts with third parties. | 1 x contract with Ian Young. (done) | Nicole Harris / Licia Florio | 01/2015 | 03/2015 | COMPLETE |
REF15-1G | Manage REFEDS Sponsorships. | Current sponsor list. | Nicole Harris / Licia Florio | As appropriate | As appropriate | ONGOING |
REF15-2: Federation Operator Best PracticeLead: Nicole Harris |
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Aims:
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WORKITEMS | DESCRIPTION | COMMENT | ASSIGNED TO | START DATE | END DATE | STATUS |
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REF15-2A | Documentation for federation operator practice statements. | MRPS work underway - needs summary and pushing back out. | Nicole Harris | 01/2015 | 12/2015 | IN PROGRESS |
REF15-2B | Report on uptake of R&S and Hide from Discovery Entity Categories. | Figures now being collated. | Nicole Harris | 10/2015 | 12/2015 | IN PROGRESS |
REF15-2C | Develop supporting material for Entity Categories focused on risk assessment. | Initial guidelines on release implemented on wiki. Looking at a small leaflet to support promotional work. | Nicole Harris | 04/2015 | 06/2015 | COMPLETE |
REF15-2D | Consultations for new Entity Categories. | Academia consultation completed. Affiliation to be discussed. | Nicole Harris | 04/2015 | 09/2015 | COMPLETE |
REF15-2E | Complete survey / review on how contacts in metadata are being used / implemented. | Work now included in SIRTFI work planning. | Nicole Harris | 07/2105 | 08/2015 | COMPLETE |
REF15-3: Virtual Organisations and GroupsLead: Licia Florio |
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Aims:
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WORKITEMS | DESCRIPTION | COMMENT | ASSIGNED TO | START DATE | END DATE | STATUS |
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REF15-3A | Update of VO / group management needs assessment documents. | Available on the REFEDS wiki. | Heather Flanagan | 04/2015 | 12/2015 | COMPLETE |
REF15-3B | VO / Groups Problem Statement Document | Overview presented at Cleveland meeting, paper to be prepared. | Heather Flanagan | 04/2015 | 12/2015 | IN PROGRESS |
REF15-3C | Value Proposition of federations for VOs document. | Draft available on REFEDS wiki. Seeking further commentary. | Heather Flanagan | 04/2015 | 12/2015 | IN PROGRESS |
REF15-3D | 3 x conference call to discuss namespace requirements. | Work postponed until 2016. | Licia Florio | 04/2015 | 12/2015 | POSTPONED |
REF15-3E | Draft proposal on standardising namespace for groups. | Work postponed until 2016. | Licia Florio | 04/2105 | 12/2015 | POSTPONED |
REF15-4: REFEDS Services and Monitoring.Lead: Licia Florio |
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Aims:
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WORKITEMS | DESCRIPTION | COMMENT | ASSIGNED TO | START DATE | END DATE | STATUS |
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REF15-4A | REEP Operations. | New contract with Emergya delivered, LF working to evaluate deliverables to date and make proposals moving forward. | Licia Florio | 01/2015 | 12/2015 | IN 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 Harris | 02/2015 | 06/2015 | COMPLETE |
REF15-4C | Liaison work with Fed Lab. | Cross GN4-AARC-REFEDS-KANTARA Work area kicked off. Funding proposal to REFEDS received. | Nicole Harris | 04/2015 | 12/2015 | IN PROGRESS |
REF15-4D | Incident Response Framework. | Initial charter and workplan for SIRTFI circulated with stakeholders. Consultation out | Licia Florio / Nicole Harris | 04/2015 | 12/2015 | IN PROGRESS |
REF15-5: Standards and HarmonisationLead: Nicole Harris |
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Aims:
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WORKITEMS | DESCRIPTION | COMMENT | ASSIGNED TO | START DATE | END DATE | STATUS |
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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 Young | 02/2015 | 12/2015 | IN PROGRESS |
REF15-5B | Federation at scale: review of further work needed to support large-scale metadata management, including discovery. | To do. | Nicole Harris | 02/2015 | 06/2015 | POSTPONED |
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 Young | 04/2015 | 12/2015 | IN PROGRESS |
REF15-5D | SCHAC development and sustainability. | All work on updating SCHAC documentation now complete. Not enough work to consider adding a further contract in place. | Heather Flanagan | 01/2015 | 06/2015 | COMPLETE |
REF14-6: Specialist Working GroupsLead: According to WG Chair |
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Aim:
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WORKITEMS | DESCRIPTION | COMMENT | ASSIGNED TO | START DATE | END DATE | STATUS |
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REF15-6A | Ongoing operation as usual. | Peter Schober | 01/2015 | 12/2015 | IN PROGRESS | |
REF15-6B | MARI: Manging Attribute Release in Interfederation use cases | On hold pending further discussions. Recommendation not to continue with this group. | Ken Klingenstein | 01/2015 | 12/2015 | CANCELLED |
REF15-6C | Not started yet. Roland H working on workplans. | Roland Hedberg | 04/2015 | 12/2015 | MOVE TO 2016 | |
REF15-6D | SIRTFI | Work developing well, continuing to support. | Nicole Harris | 04/2015 | 12/2015 | IN PROGRESS |