These are the proposed top level areas for the 2020 workplan, drawn from proposals crowdsourced in 2019.
Approved by the REFEDS SC via e-vote on 11 February 2020.
REF20-1: REFEDS Coordination and ManagementLead: 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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REF20-1A | REFEDS BOFS at appropriate meetings throughout the year (maximum of 2). | Suggestions for where to target BOFs in 2020 welcomed. Proposal for an "unconference" style REFEDS meeting has been circulated to the community for discussion. | Nicole Harris | 01/20 | 12/20 | |
REF20-1B | Maintain and develop the REFEDS blog, wiki and website. | As normal. | Nicole Harris | 01/20 | 12/20 | |
REF20-1C | REFEDS annual meetings. | TNC and Internet2 Technology Exchange Meeting. | Nicole Harris | 01/20 | 10/20 | |
REF20-1D | Implement 2020 REFEDS Survey. | Annual REFEDS Survey to go out in September 2020. | Nicole Harris | 09/20 | 12/20 | |
REF20-1E | Manage REFEDS contracts with third parties. | These are contracts with external parties that support REFEDS such as Spherical Cow Consulting and RETI. | Nicole Harris | 01/20 | 07/20 | |
REF20-1F | Manage REFEDS Sponsorships. | Current sponsor list. | Nicole Harris | 12/18 | 01/20 | |
REF20-1G | REFEDS Distinguished Engineer Programme. | Programme to bring 2 engineers from developing federations to TNC. | Heather Flanagan | 02/20 | 08/20 |
REF20-2: Specialist Working GroupsLead: Heather Flanagan |
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Aim:
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WORKITEMS | DESCRIPTION | ASSIGNED TO | START DATE | END DATE | STATUS |
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REF20-2A | Peter Schober with support from Nicole Harris | 01/2020 | 12/2020 | ||
REF20-2B | SIRTFI | Tom Barton with support from Nicole Harris | 01/2020 | 12/2020 | |
REF20-2C | Assurance | Jule Ziegler with support from Heather Flanagan | 01/2020 | 12/2020 | Working group to consider how the REFEDS MFA Profile uses the authnContextClassRef https://refeds.org/profile/mfa in the SAMLRequest to signal that MFA should be used for authentication. Microsoft ADFS cannot handle this authnContextClassRef and returns a FatalProfileException during authentication. Discussion notes from TechEx ACAMP session regarding REFEDS MFA in ADFS: https://bit.ly/2RTPgGb |
REF20-2D | Entity Category Support | Nicole Harris | 01/2020 | 12/2020 | |
REF20-2E | Tom Barton and Judith Bush with support from Heather Flanagan | 01/2020 | 12/2020 | ||
REF20-2F | SPOG: SP Operators Group | Laura Paglione with support from Heather Flanagan | 01/2020 | 12/2020 | |
REF20-2G | Federation Baseline | Pål Axelsson and Alan Buxey with support from Heather Flanagan | 01/2020 | 12/2020 | |
REF20-2H | Best Practice around Error Handling | Fredrik Domeij with support from Heather Flanagan | 02/2020 | 12/2020 |
REF20-3: Promotion and CommunicationLead: Nicole Harris |
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WORKITEMS | DESCRIPTION | ASSIGNED TO | START DATE | END DATE | STATUS |
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REF20-3A | Promotional material and support for entity categories | Nicole Harris | 04/2020 | 09/2020 | |
REF20-3B | REFEDS Discovery Guide, Mark 2 Consent is used often within identity federations. While on a national level it may be clear what asking and giving consent entails, unfortunately consent does not mean the same thing in various countries as the legal grounds for consent vary. Also there are many ways to implement consent. What makes a good consent page and what does not? When is it (not) user friendly, what should be shown to make it legally usable? What are the best practices around consent globally? This activity investigates what it means to ask and give consent in various countries. In addition it describes recommendations for 'good' and 'bad' consent pages similar to the REFEDS Discovery Guide. Include note on how hub and spoke federations manage discovery. | Heather Flanagan | 01/2020 | 08/2020 | |
REF18-3C | SP Engagement Plan Develop/enhance an engagement plan for service providers. The goal is threefold: 1) to gain deeper insights about the needs of SPs within the community, 2) to better integrate SPs in general community engagement (conferences, working groups, discussions, etc), and 3) to develop a resource for gaining SP support, feedback, and contributions. (Follow up from the Technology Exchange ACAMP session, SPs Unite!: http://bit.ly/ACAMP-SPsUnite) | Laura Paglione, Heather Flanagan | 01/2020 | 12/2020 |
REF20-4: Standards and SpecificationsLead: Heather Flanagan |
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WORKITEMS | DESCRIPTION | ASSIGNED TO | START DATE | END DATE | STATUS |
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REF20-4A | Schema Editorial Board with support from Heather Flanagan | 01/2020 | 12/2020 | ||
REF20-4B | Standardize requirements for logos in metadata | Keith Wessel with support from Heather Flanagan | 01/2020 | 12/2020 | |
REF20-4C | Update the Cloud Services Cookbook (It would be very useful to devote some resources to updating SAML-specific recipes as well as add OIDC and protocol-agnostic recipes.) | TBD | 02/2020 | 10/2020 | |
REF20-4D | Extensions to MDQ | TBD | 02/2020 | 10/2020 |
REF20-5: REFEDS ServicesLead: Nicole Harris |
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WORKITEMS | DESCRIPTION | ASSIGNED TO | START DATE | END DATE | STATUS |
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REF20-5A | MET Contract in place with GARR for central operations. Development work to be contracted to RETI (Andrea). New features added and delivered in Oct. | Contractor | 01/2020 | 12/2020 | |
REF20-5B | REEP/PEER Evaluate service and determine what, if any changes are required to maintain | Licia Florio | 01/2020 | 12/2020 | Outstanding decision on EOL. |