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2010-Q1 Report - User-Managed Access Work Group

2010-Q1 Report - User-Managed Access Work Group

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Kantara Initiative UMA Work Group Report for 2010-Q1

Reporting on: 2010-Q1
Date Submitted: April 20, 2010

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

Filled Officer Positions and Names:

  • Chair: Eve Maler
  • Vice-Chair: Paul Bryan
  • Specification Editor: Paul Bryan
  • Use Cases Editor: Hasan Akram
  • Domenico Catalano, Graphics/UX Editor (voted)
  • Maciej Machulak, Implementation Coordinator (informal)

Vacant Officer Positions and Names:

  • None

What are the current active number of:

  • Total Participants: 74 (16 more since Q4)
  • Voting Participants: 13 (8 fewer since Q4)
  • Non-Voting Participants: 61 (24 more since Q4)
  • Total Email List Subscribers: 106 as of 20 Apr 2010 (15 more since 6 Jan 2009)

Published Teleconference Frequency: weekly
Number of Teleconferences this Quarter: 11 (7 quorate)

Number of Quorate Physical Meetings this Quarter: 1
Number of Non-Quorate Physical Meetings this Quarter: 0

Number of Draft Specifications Produced this Quarter: 5 (new Lexicon, revised Protocol Issues, revised Core Protocol, revised Requirements, revised Scenarios and Use Cases)
Number of Reports Produced this Quarter: 0

Deadlines the Group will face in the forthcoming quarter:

  • Expiration of Group Leadership (e.g. Chair): none
  • Deadlines listed in the Group Charter (e.g. duration expiration): none
  • Group-Imposed Deadlines: The WG has a goal of demonstrating one or more implementations by late May. By late Q2/early Q3 the group should coordinate with KI staff on announcing a bounty program for developing a hosted validator.

Other Comments:

  • Voting participation has dropped, but a significant number of non-voting participants join telecons regularly.
  • The core protocol spec underwent a major revision to update its technical substrate to the WRAP paradigm now used by OAuth 2.0.
  • An extensive technical report about UMA has been published under the auspices of Newcastle University by a set of authors that includes several members of the WG's leadership team.
  • The WG has been providing input to the OAuth work taking place at IETF.