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2012-Q2 Report - UMA WG

2012-Q2 Report - UMA WG

Jul 01, 2012

 

2012-Q2 Report - UMA WG

Date submitted: 1 Jul 2012

Officer positions:

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

  • 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: 143 (6 more since Q4)

    • Voting: 10 (same as Q1)

    • Non-voting: 133 (6 more since Q4)

  • Total email list subscribers: 171 (6 fewer since Q1)

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: 7

  • Physical meetings this quarter: 2 (EIC Kantara Summit "interop session" and IIW 14 "open meeting"; both were informal)

    • Quorate physical meetings: n/a

Deliverables:

  • Draft specifications produced this quarter (see Working Drafts area):

    • Revised Core Protocol spec (currently at rev 05a)

    • Revised FAQ

    • Revised Trust Model spec, now called Binding Obligations on UMA Participants)

  • Progress against goals for 2012-Q2:

    • Continued to work through and collect issues

    • Significantly revised the trust model

    • Gathered new use cases, particularly business-oriented ones

    • Proposed draft interop feature tests

  • Other:

    • The dynamic client registration spec the group had contributed to the IETF has been adopted as a work item in the OAuth WG's next phase

Deadlines in the next quarter:

  • Deadlines listed in the group charter:

    • Group was chartered to operate for 18-24 months; it is currently at 34 months; the group has begun discussing next steps

  • Elected terms expiring:

    • N/A for the next quarter

  • Goals for 2012-Q3:

    • Assess how to complete the "incubation" phase and promote the technical spec work to an SDO

    • Continue interop activities

    • Continue issue resolution activities

    • Support existing and new implementations and support deployment activities

    • Work with liaisons to assess role and next steps of Binding Obligations contractual framework

    • Continue work on business use cases

Liaison activity updates:

  • Met with "legal all-stars" to get trust model feedback

  • Engaged with OAuth group on dyn-client-reg and other UMA-impacting topics

  • Engaged with OpenID Connect technical experts on UMA-impacting topics

  • Engaged with leadership of Kantara and other organizations to discuss UMA futures

Other comments:

  • Paused the tweet chat series in Q2

  • Gave educational talks to the Oracle Community for Security in Italy and to other venues

  • An open-sourced Python-based library called PUMA was released for supporting the development of UMA hosts and requesters

  • Worked with the owner of the OSIS wiki to create an area dedicated to UMA's first interop testing round