Date

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Goals

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TimeItemWhoNotes
5 min

Administrivia

  • SC nomination for 2025-2027
  • SEB nominations for 2025-2027
Heather
  • SC nominations:
    • Zacharias will be joining the SC.
    • Need to follow up with Alex Stuart as he may not be up for continuing his term
  • SEB nomination:
    • FYI - this is open, and we do have nominations. This will stay open for another week or so.
10 min

2025 contracts - work tasks


Things to add

  • strategic planning support
  • reconsider the list of organizations listed
  • need to explicitly stay in touch with different regions
  • if this is essentially the general manager role for REFEDS (whereas Nicole holds the financial reigns and liaison with GEANT)
30 min2025 Work Plan Preparation - approvalAll 

Discussion

  • ROR - the description doesn't really show the complexity under the surface. Whatever is in the metadata will have to include the ROR ID; is it too circular? Is the ROR data rich and current? We don't fully understand the source of RORs, who maintains it, or how accurate it is. Do they just want a placeholder for the value in metadata, or do they want to do more? It's one thing to put it in the metadata, and it's another to have it populated in a way that's usable for others. We would like to see more discovery work to understand more if/how people would find this useful and what it would take for orgs to add this information to their entity. What use cases served as the origin for this request?
  • Update REFEDS MFA Profile - how does the group frame this? the MVP is to add another value to signal phishing-resistant MFA; that allows backwards compatibility. Another option is to explore how to define this as appropriate for R&E. May also want to consider shifting to "strong authentication" rather than "MFA".
  • Adapting InCommon Interoperability - the expectations aren't ready yet; propose pushing this back to 2026
  • Profiling OpenID Federation for global R&E - probably too soon for this as well; the question is how to use that spec (i.e., build the tooling). There is work in eduGAIN about this also; at most it should happen there rather than REFEDS. Will discuss further at TIIME.
  • For all continuing group, no objections to having those continue.
10 minREFEDS 50 planning

Nicole should reprise the REFEDS retrospective

Federation updates

  • Note that CARSI wants to be on the federations update list

Must plan for a group photo

Anyone from the early days (who happens to be in the UK) available to celebrate?

Action items