2012-Q4 Report - UMA WG

Date submitted: 1 Jan 2013

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