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2012-Q4 Report - UMA WG

2012-Q4 Report - UMA WG

Jan 01, 2013

 

2012-Q4 Report - UMA WG

Date submitted: 1 Jan 2013

Officer positions:

  • Chair: Eve Maler (Re-elected by electronic ballot on 2012-11-05)

  • Vice-Chair: Maciej Machulak (re-elected 2012-05-10)

  • Specification Editor: Thomas Hardjono (elected 2012-04-05)

  • Domenico Catalano, Graphics/UX Editor (re-elected 2011-05-19)

  • Maciej Machulak, Implementation Coordinator (informally appointed 2010-01-21)

Participation:

  • Total participants: 149 ( more since Q3)

    • Voting: 10 (3 fewer than Q3)

    • Non-voting: 143 (7 more since Q3)

  • Total email list subscribers: 167 (4 fewer than Q3)

Meetings:

  • Published meeting frequency: originally weekly; now a monthly all-hands with weekly educational/legal/technical/interop focus meetings in between

  • Teleconferences held this quarter: 4 all-hands (plus at least 10 focus meetings)

    • Quorate teleconferences: 2

  • Physical meetings this quarter: none

    • Quorate physical meetings: n/a

Deliverables:

  • Draft specifications produced this quarter (see Working Drafts area):

    • Revised Core Protocol spec (currently at rev 07a, rev 06 submitted to IETF)

    • Modularized OAuth Resource Set Registration spec (currently at rev 00, submitted to IETF; meant for use by other OAuth-based technologies as well)

    • Revised Binding Obligations

  • Progress against goals for 2012-Q4:

    • Continued to dispose of issues, particularly in response to implementer queries

    • Conducted webinar focusing on the higher education scenario, including a detailed demo by the SMART team

    • Collected considerable legal input on Binding Obligations

    • Gathered new set of case studies that will track implementation and deployment work

    • Began publishing a series of specific case studies that potential deployers can use to assess UMA's fit for their scenarios

  • Liaison activity updates:

    • Conducted liaison activity with AXN, Scalable Privacy, XACML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, and others

  • Other:

    • Successfully kickstarted active spec editing of the dynamic client registration spec that was adopted in the IETF OAuth group

    • Gluu has made progress on its open-source implementation tackling an enterprise use case for UMA and will demo it for the group

Deadlines in the next quarter:

  • Deadlines listed in the group charter:

    • Group was chartered to operate for 18-24 months

  • Elected terms expiring:

    • None

  • Goals for 2013-Q1:

    • Launch serious interop testing (held over)

    • Prepare drafts for consideration at IETF 86 in March

    • Refactor publications to use new UMA terminology

    • Conduct and advertise educational podcast series

    • Continue to support implementations and deployment activities

    • Continue to liaise with partners

    • Continue to burn down issues

    • Continue to develop the Binding Obligations