2012-Q2 Report - UMA WG

Date submitted: 1 Jul 2012

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

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