Kantara Initiative UMA Work Group Report for 2010-Q2

Reporting on: 2010-Q2
Date Submitted: July 10, 2010

Group Name: User-Managed Access (UMA) Work Group

Filled Officer Positions and Names:

Chair: Eve Maler (elected 18 Aug 2009)
Vice-Chair: Maciej Machulak (elected 27 May 2010)
Specification Editor: Christian Scholz (elected 10 Jun 2010)
Use Cases Editor: Hasan Akram (elected 18 Aug 2009)
Domenico Catalano, Graphics/UX Editor (elected 14 Jan 2010)
Maciej Machulak, Implementation Coordinator (informal)

Vacant Officer Positions and Names:

None

What are the current active number of:

Total Participants: 82 (8 more since Q1)
Voting Participants: 10 (3 fewer since Q1)
Non-Voting Participants: 72 (11 more since Q1)
Total Email List Subscribers: 114 (8 more since 20 Apr 2010)

Published Teleconference Frequency: weekly (for whole-group telecons), additional ad hoc telecons for smaller interest groups
Number of Teleconferences this Quarter: 11 WG telecons (8 quorate)

Number of Quorate Physical Meetings this Quarter: 0
Number of Non-Quorate Physical Meetings this Quarter: 0

Number of Draft Specifications Produced this Quarter: 6

New Claims 2.0
New Simple Access Authorization Claims
New Legal Considerations in UMA Authorization
New Dynamic Client Registration (planned to be submitted as input to IETF as an I-D and be referenced from Core Protocol eventually)
New Resource Registration API (possibly to be folded into core protocol later)
Revised Core Protocol
Number of Reports Produced this Quarter: 0

Deadlines the Group will face in the forthcoming quarter:

Expiration of Group Leadership (e.g. Chair): Chair, Use Cases Editor
Deadlines listed in the Group Charter (e.g. duration expiration): none
Group-Imposed Deadlines: none

Other Comments:

UMA now has one known complete implementation: "UMA/j" framework and User Experience implementation in Java (SMART project at Newcastle University); it will ultimately be open-sourced. UX testers are actively being sought by this project.
Voting participation has dropped again slightly, but a significant number of non-voting participants continue to join telecons regularly.
The WG is now using github as a working area for active spec development, in coordination with Kantara staff.
The UMA WG won a budget allocation of $4000 for use as a bounty to hosted validator developers, to be offered mid-year (i.e., now). We need to further prepare for this inside the WG (e.g. by revising our specs comprehensively) and coordinate with Kantara staff how to announce this bounty.

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