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Expected Attendees

  • Tom Barton.

Agenda

  1. Open Actions.
  2. eduPerson Update.
  3. Sirtfi+ Registry.
  4. REFEDS Survey 2018.
  5. Feedback from TechEx.
  6. REFEDS Workplan 2019.
  7. AOB.

Notes

Open Actions - Review

  • Expect to move the general VC to January
  • Service Catalogue - requested to be on the GN4-3 work plan, but that hasn’t been officially approved yet. 
    • Heather Flanagan to follow up with Licia Florio and Marina Adomeit on next steps with Service Catalogue.
    • Nicole Harris to confirm funding available to Service Catalogue in GN4-3.

eduPerson / Schema Update


  • Heather sent a suggestion to the SC that we have a single governance board
    • Scott suggests adding something about the membership that there is a mechanism to try and make sure the membership represents the full spectrum of stakeholders that are impacted by the schemas (e.g., research needs a seat at that table)
    • Heath will send a few templates to get this into a better format (to include chair, meeting frequency, membership, etc)
  • eduPerson has been copied to the wiki, and a landing page posted on the website
  • Would it be possible to create smaller work teams to help encourage faster changes for minor additions?
    • Some concern that any schema change would require more review
    • Smaller work teams could work for minor changes along the lines of punctuation for clarity
    • First thing the board should do is define their bylaws that could include this kind of fast, straightforward change process
  • Heath Marks to send comments to Heather on structure.  

Sirtfi+ Registry

  • Not all federations can support SIRTFI. Some individual institutions want/need to assert SIRTFI directly. The SIRTFI+ registry would allow for individual institutions to assert SIRTFI outside the usual federation metadata. It would be a unique stream of metadata. 
    • This was a contentious item at the REFEDS meeting in Orlando. There is tension building between fed ops and the SIRTFI+ proposal.
      • Might be less contention about who operates this if the purpose and parameters of the registry were more clearly understood.
      • One item to be clarified: The metadata will not be re-inserted into the eduGAIN metadata feed. 
  • See update from Tom Barton to the sc list.
  • Can REFEDS send a more official note to fed ops requesting they support this entity? Not sure how effective this would be; some large federations have already indicated they will not move on this. 
  • Nicole Harris will draft a letter on behalf of the SC to send to the CEO (or equivalent) of federations that are not currently supporting SIRTFI
  • Need to focus on the right goals, roles, and responsibility and let the operator fall out of that. The goal here is to enhance trust. 
  • Maarten: not sure SIRTFI+ should be the name; Scott will take that input back to the SIRTFI WG

REFEDS Survey 2018.

  • Survey is ready.
    • Maarten looked at it; looks good. Did discuss with with a team member about whether a question about MFA made sense; Nicole to follow up to see if that would make sense.
    • Heath to look at the survey later; would like to see the longitudinal trends which will let us see long term trends. 
  • Action: all SC members to review by the end of this week


Feedback from TechEx.

  • Had some follow ups from the ACAMP sessions
    • Federation 2.0 kicked off; mailing list just set up
    • API management also came out of an ACAMP session (Federation APIs, Campus Metadata Mgmt, Local SP on boarding, process, and policy) ; mailing list just set up
  • There are some discussions about a mid-year InCommon T&I meeting. TechEx itself is moved to December (which works better for the REFEDS work plan)


REFEDS Workplan 2019.

  • Nicole preparing the wiki pages now. Call for proposals will be out at the end of the year. 
    • Note that GN4 Task and Activity leaders will be unable to attend TIIME as they have a conflict with a GN4 meeting
  • Heather Flanagan to follow up with WG chairs to see who is attending TIIME and can talk about 2019 work plan possibilities


AOB.

  • Miro and Thomas are at the end of their SC terms this year. When does a call for SC members go out? Nicole will reach out to sponsors at the end of this year with a report and to give them a chance to say if there’s anyone they would like to nominate for the SC (they do not get to choose). She will also reach out to Miro and Thomas to see if they would like to continue. 
  • Heath: Should we campaign to get more sponsors? Nicole does have something in the survey about sponsorship. If SC members have other ideas, please let Nicole know.