These are the proposed top level areas for the 2021 workplan, drawn from proposals crowdsourced in 2020.
REF21-1: 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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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. | 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. | Annual REFEDS Survey to go out in September 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 | 01/21 | 12/21 | |
REF21-1G | REFEDS Distinguished Engineer Programme. | On hold | Heather Flanagan | This is on hold as we only plan to have virtual meetings in 2021 |
REF21-2: 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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REF21-2A | Peter Schober with support from Nicole Harris | 01/2121 | 12/21 | This is an ongoing discussion group and as such has no goals. | |
REF21-2B | SIRTFI | Tom Barton with support from Nicole Harris | 01/2121 | 12/21 | |
REF21-2C | Assurance | Jule Ziegler with support from Heather Flanagan | 01/2121 | 12/21 | The goal as of 2021 of this working group is to:
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REF21-2D | Entity Category Support | Nicole Harris | 01/2121 | 12/21 | The goal for 2021 will be to produce a v2 of the REFEDS R&S specification. |
REF21-2E | Tom Barton and Judith Bush with support from Heather Flanagan | 01/2121 | 12/21 | ||
REF21-2F | SPOG: SP Operators Group | Laura Paglione with support from Heather Flanagan | 01/2121 | 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 with support from Heather Flanagan | 01/2121 | 12/21 | |
REF21-2H | REFEDS OIDCre | TBD | 02/2121 | 12/21 | Restarting the OIDCre working group to serve as a requirements gathering point for information to submit to the OIDF OIDCre working group |
REF21-3: Promotion and CommunicationLead: Nicole Harris |
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Aims:
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WORKITEMS | DESCRIPTION | ASSIGNED TO | START DATE | END DATE | STATUS |
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REF21-3A | Liaison with identified stakeholder groups and establish consistent working relationships | Nicole Harris | 04/21 | 09/21 | |
REF21-3B | Further work to be defined following REFEDS Strategy meeting | Heather Flanagan | 01/21 | 08/21 |
REF21-4: Standards and SpecificationsLead: Heather Flanagan |
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Aims:
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WORKITEMS | DESCRIPTION | ASSIGNED TO | START DATE | END DATE | STATUS |
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REF21-4A | Schema Editorial Board with support from Heather Flanagan | 01/2121 | 12/21 | Work items to include
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REF21-4B | Standardize requirements for logos in metadata | Keith Wessel with support from Heather Flanagan | 01/2121 | 12/21 | |
REF21-4C | 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 | 02/2121 | 10/21 |
REF21-5: REFEDS ServicesLead: Nicole Harris |
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WORKITEMS | DESCRIPTION | ASSIGNED TO | START DATE | END DATE | STATUS |
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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. |