REFEDS Steering Committee Notes, 19th January 2015

Attendees

The meeting will take place at 15:00 CET on 19th February 2015 via Skype.

In attendance: Licia Florio,Nicole Harris, Valter Nordh, Thomas Leggenhager, Miro Milonovic, Ken Klingenstein, Jean-Francois Guezou.
Apologies: Andrew Cormack.

Proposed Agenda Items

• Updates on the sponsorship (for information), LF

• The sponsorship is progressing well. To date we have:

  • ISOC - PLATINUM

  • NORDUNET - PLATINUM 

  • I2/InCommon - PLATINUM

  • GARR - PLATINUM (some of their sponsorship will be devoted to update and operate the Metadata Explorer Tool, MET)

  • RENATER - GOLD

  • SURFnet - GOLD

  • SWITCH - GOLD

  • Australian Access Federation (AAF) - BRONZE

  • RedIRIS - SILVER

  • CANARIE REFEDS Level to be confirmed yet

  • LIGO - SILVER (in the process) 
• Sign off on participants agreement, LF.
• Workplan 2015 (for approval), NH, LF.
• Metadata registration practice (for discussion)
• Workplan 2015 (for approval), NH, LF
• How to proceed with the Metadata registration practice (for discussion) -
• New Survey update, LF.
• REFEDS birthday plans, NH.  
• Data Protection Issues - VN.

Actions:

SCM20150219: LF to talk to Japan, DFN, BELNET and UK in terms of federations.
SCM20150219: LF to also approach relevant companies: Kantara, OpenID Foundation, Ping?