2012-Q1 Report - UMA WG

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