2012-Q1 Report - UMA WG

Date submitted: 1 Apr 2012

Officer positions:

Chair: Eve Maler (re-elected 22 Sep 2011)
Vice-Chair: Maciej Machulak (re-elected 19 May 2011)
Specification Editor: Thomas Hardjono (elected 11 Apr 2011)
Domenico Catalano, Graphics/UX Editor (re-elected 19 May 2011)
Maciej Machulak, Implementation Coordinator (informal)

Participation:

Total participants: 137 (4 more since Q4)
- Voting: 10 (4 fewer since Q4; tends to be volatile in the 10-14 range)
- Non-voting: 127 (8 more since Q4)
Total email list subscribers: 177 as of 1 Apr 2012 (15 more since 1 Jan 2012)

Meetings:

Published meeting frequency: weekly (for whole-group telecons), additional telecons for smaller interest groups
Teleconferences held this quarter: 12 (plus additional ad hoc/focus telecons)
- Quorate teleconferences: 8
Physical meetings this quarter: none
- Quorate physical meetings: n/a

Deliverables:

Draft specifications produced this quarter (see Working Drafts area):
- Revised Core Protocol spec (IETF I-D saw significant revs 03 and 04????)
- Revised FAQ and addition of new AISEC Implementation FAQ
- Revised Trust Model spec
- New UMA Twitter Chat page
Progress against goals for 2012-Q1:
- Resolved all A-priority and many B-priority issues, and identified new issues through implementation
- Revised IETF I-D for core spec in time for consideration at the IETF 83 meeting 25-30 Mar 2012
- Put plan in place for virtual and F2F interop testing (extending into Q2 as well)

Deadlines in the next quarter:

Deadlines listed in the group charter:
- Group was chartered to operate for 18-24 months; it is currently at 31 months; the group has entered into a new phase where the dominant activities are solving open issues, updating the IETF I-D, and facilitating developer adoption and implementation interoperability
Elected terms expiring:
- Vice-chair: in May
- Spec editor: in April
- Graphics editor: in May
Goals for 2012-Q2:
- Continue to burn down issues
- Prepare for F2F and virtual interop activities
- Support existing and new implementations and support deployment activities
- Revise Trust Model
- Gather new use cases, particularly business-oriented ones

Liaison activity updates:

Other comments:

Began a successful monthly series of tweet chats, information about which is at http://tinyurl.com/umachat
Gave a Google Tech Talk, video for which is expected to be made public at some point