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2012-Q1 Report - UMA WG

2012-Q1 Report - UMA WG

Apr 01, 2012

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:

  • No news

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