2021 Workplan - Proposed

These are the proposed top level areas for the 2021 workplan, drawn from proposals crowdsourced in early 2021.

REF21-1: REFEDS Coordination and Management

Lead: Nicole Harris

Aims:

To progress REFEDS position as an important player within the access and identity management space internationally.
To build on established relationships with GÉANT project and other federation-related activities around the world.

WORKITEMS	DESCRIPTION	COMMENT	ASSIGNED TO	START DATE	END DATE	STATUS
REF21-1A	REFEDS BOFS at appropriate meetings throughout the year (maximum of 2).	Suggestions for where to target BOFs in 2021 welcomed. Proposal for an "unconference" style REFEDS meeting has been circulated to the community for discussion.	Nicole Harris	01/21	12/21
REF21-1B	Maintain and develop the REFEDS blog, wiki and website.	As normal.	Nicole Harris	01/21	12/21
REF21-1C	REFEDS annual meetings.	TNC and Internet2 Technology Exchange Meeting (if held)	Nicole Harris	01/21	10/21	These meetings will be held virtually, be close to the indicated meetings. They won't be directly in the same week to avoid online fatigue.
REF21-1D	Implement 2021 REFEDS Survey and present results of 2020 survey.	Annual REFEDS Survey to go out in November 2021.	Nicole Harris	09/21	12/21
REF21-1E	Manage REFEDS contracts with third parties.	These are contracts with external parties that support REFEDS such as Spherical Cow Consulting and RETI.	Nicole Harris	01/21	07/21
REF21-1F	Manage REFEDS Sponsorships.	Current sponsor list.	Nicole Harris	12/18	01/21
REF21-1G	REFEDS Distinguished Engineer Programme.	On hold	Heather Flanagan			This is on hold as we only plan to have virtual meetings in 2021.

Lead: Heather Flanagan

Aim:

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

WORKITEMS	DESCRIPTION	ASSIGNED TO	START DATE	END DATE	STATUS
REF21-2A	FOG: Federation Operators Group	Peter Schober with support from Nicole Harris	01/21	12/21	This is an ongoing discussion group and as such has no goals.
REF21-2B	SIRTFI	Tom Barton	01/21	12/21
REF21-2C	Assurance	Jule Ziegler	01/21	12/21	The goal as of 2021 of this working group is to: revisit and modernize the specifications (formal review). ensure test facilities are in place to enable adoption.
REF21-2D	Entity Category Support	Heather Flanagan	01/21	12/21	The goal for 2021 will be to produce a v2 of the REFEDS R&S specification.
REF21-2E	Federation Trust 2.0	Tom Barton and Judith Bush	01/21	12/21
REF21-2F	SPOG: SP Operators Group	Laura Paglione	01/21	12/21	This is an ongoing discussion group and as such has no goals.
REF21-2G	Federation Baseline Expectations Working Group	Pål Axelsson and Alan Buxey	01/21	12/21
REF21-2H	REFEDS OIDCre	TBD	03/21	12/21	Restarting the OIDCre working group to serve as a requirements gathering point for information to submit to the OIDF OIDCre working group

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.

WORKITEMS	DESCRIPTION	ASSIGNED TO	START DATE	END DATE	STATUS
	Liaison with identified stakeholder groups and establish consistent working relationships
	Further work to be defined following REFEDS Strategy meeting

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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REF21-4A

Schema Editorial Board with support from Heather Flanagan

01/21

12/21

Work items to include

Lead: Nicole Harris

Aims:

To continue using MET and enhance where possible.
To support the basic REFEDS infrastructure needs (website, wiki, and mailing lists).

WORKITEMS	DESCRIPTION	ASSIGNED TO	START DATE	END DATE	STATUS
REF21-5A	MET: revision of the MET service to bring back to consistent working enivronment	Contractor	01/21	12/21	Call for proposals issued: https://refeds.org/a/2492. Deadline for proposals: 26th February.