2013-Q1 Report - UMA WG

Date submitted: 2 Apr 2013

Chair: Eve Maler (Re-elected by electronic ballot on 2012-11-05)
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: 152 (1 fewer since Q4 – number not reliable, in chair's opinion, due to data staleness)
- Voting: 10 (same since Q4)
- Non-voting: 142 (1 fewer since Q4 – number not reliable, in chair's opinion, due to data staleness)
Total email list subscribers: 165 (2 fewer since Q4)

Meetings:

Published meeting frequency: monthly all-hands with weekly educational/legal/technical/interop focus meetings in between
Teleconferences held this quarter: 4 all-hands (plus 11 focus meetings and additional ad hoc 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 07b)
- Revised and added to Case Studies
Progress against goals for 2013-Q1:
- Refactored more publications to use new OAuth-friendly terminology
- Continued to support implementations and deployment activities
- Continued to burn down issues, particularly those raised by implementers
- Continued to test the waters on the Binding Obligations concept, e.g. with MIT Media Lab
Liaison activity updates:
- Conducted liaison activity with AXN, Scalable Privacy, XACML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, and others

Deadlines in the next quarter:

Deadlines listed in the group charter:
- Group was chartered to operate for 18-24 months
Elected terms expiring:
- Chair, vice-chair, spec editor, graphics editor
Goals for 2013-Q2:
- Promote creation of vertical and horizontal profiles
- Promote POCs
- Promote UMA+OpenID Connect optimization