Introductions
David Bantz - something he's been struggling with from an enterprise/university perspective
Jason Peak (Oregon State - IAM lead on the Oregon University Pronoun Project, and hope to find guidance in international standards
Mona Zarei (UCSD) - see pronouns as important to the future in support of diversity
Blair Christensen (U. Chicago) - campus is in the early stages re: a pronoun project
Pete Birkinshaw (consultant, previously working for U Manchester) - advises businesses, colleges, and universities on this topic; sees pronouns being supported in back end systems, but not in the IAM layer
Davida Bantz-Leguard (interested member of the public) - degree in linguistics and interested in the topic, encountering different versions of this schema in various applications and forms and found the inconsistency frustrating
Charter
Looking at pronouns; will this be tied with PreferredName or DisplayName? That's out of scope
Pronunciation seems closely related and is also something in different fields in HR and SP systems; could that be in scope? Examples: using video to record the preferred pronunciation, or using the proper phonetic alphabet to describe. This is an interesting analog to the pronoun question, but is still separate.
Existing Proposal (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t9az18skX3ILz0Ie00_2nX3XMcAZb0pPsHTwV-_kSiU/edit)
There is an article in Educause Review about four years ago that has some recommendations that might be useful. https://er.educause.edu/articles/2016/12/supporting-students-gender-identity-an-it-perspective
The spec cannot cover the different possibilities in language; should be multi-value
Best practice guidance can use examples, making sure to include examples of non-binary options
Note that the draft scope includes what is NOT in scope, but doesn't describe what's in scope
Does anyone have local guidance for how their institution plans to use pronouns?
Critical questions
presuming it would be voluntary to provide preferred pronouns, we can provide the best practices and it's up to the institution to manage
We will need to focus on two outputs: the spec, and the guidance
This can only be in support of personalization; should SPs be asking for this rather than requesting IdPs provide it?
Next steps
David St Pierre Bantz write up a draft spec for this attribute
Heather Flanagan start a google doc for best practice
Heather Flanagan send out a doodle poll for the next call