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2012-Q3 Report - UMA WG

2012-Q3 Report - UMA WG

Oct 01, 2012

2012-Q3 Report - UMA WG

Date submitted: 1 Oct 2012

Officer positions:

  • Chair: Eve Maler (re-elected 2011-09-22) -- overdue for election

  • 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 (6 more since Q2)

    • Voting: 13 (3 more than Q2)

    • Non-voting: 136 (3 more since Q2)

  • Total email list subscribers: 171 (same as Q2)

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: 7 all-hands (plus at least 4 focus meetings)

    • Quorate teleconferences: 4

  • 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 05c, since submitted to IETF as I-D rev 05)

    • Revised FAQ

    • Revised Binding Obligations

    • Revised feature tests for interop testing

  • Progress against goals for 2012-Q3:

    • Continued to work through and collect issues

    • Collected considerable legal input on Binding Obligations

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

    • Conducted liaison activity with RHex, AXN, XACML, and others

  • Other:

    • Trying to kickstart active spec editing of the dynamic client registration spec that was adopted in the IETF OAuth group

    • Fraunhofer AISEC has open-sourced its implementation

    • Gluu is working on an open-source implementation 

Deadlines in the next quarter:

  • Deadlines listed in the group charter:

    • Group was chartered to operate for 18-24 months

  • Elected terms expiring:

    • Current chair term expired on Sep 22

  • Goals for 2012-Q4:

    • Launch serious interop testing

    • Publish case studies to help implementers and deployers decide whether UMA can help them

    • Conduct a webinar focusing on the higher-education case study

    • Continue to support existing and new implementations and support deployment activities

    • Continue to burn down issues

    • Continue to develop the Binding Obligations

    • Assess the Kantara end-game

Liaison activity updates:

  • See above