UMA telecon 2012-10-18

Date and Time

Focus meeting on Thursday, 18 October 2012, at 9am PT (time chart) – technical
- Skype: +99051000000481
- US: +1-805-309-2350 (other international dial-in lines available) | Room Code: 178-2540

Agenda

Administrative: "summertime skew" coming, chair re-election, plan Nov focus meetings
Webinar post-mortem
Review technical open AIs
Discuss opportunities and challenges in UMA+AXN use cases
Record any unsolved issues
Prioritize other open issues
AOB

Minutes

We'll plan to skip our meeting on Nov 1, hold a focus meeting on Nov 8 that Maciej will run. NOTE: The Nov 8 meeting will be "one hour earlier" from the UK/Europe perspective. See the list of November meetings below.

Great work on the webinar, everyone! Domenico counted 22 or so attendees. Maciej will help in converting the recording. Thomas fielded a question from his colleaques afterwards: Does UMA have a profile for higher ed? Thomas believes it would be easier to make a case for UMA inside MIT and, e.g., make it "possible to hand it off to a developer", if a complete set of functionality could be worked on. We don't have one per se, but if there were one, it would seem to involve a higher-ed-specific HEAR-style API, and likely a unique claim profile. We'd like to publish such a profile, even if just for experimentation! Other reactions from MITers: It's difficult to move to a new system, especially when old servers have been running steadily for so long and given the possibility of introducing insecurity. Open source will help with the first objection.

The SMART team would like to propose some changes to resource registration based on their experience. It would be helpful to pass along the semantic of the type of resource that's being registered, rather than just icons and such. In essence, the AM can serve as a discovery service if it learns enough about the resource set from the host. We think this will be important for AXN too. We will target discussing this on Nov 8. See the list below for the November meeting plan.

The spec does have a list of recommended items for documenting an "UMA profile" (see Section 5.1). It should mention any claim and token profiles required.

It sounds like we should prioritize the UMA security considerations issue higher.

AI: Domenico: Look at security considerations issue (#10) and provide feedback.

AI: Thomas to start writing a higher-ed UMA profile, with Maciej's help.

Attendees

Eve
Domenico
Lukasz
Maciej
Thomas
Alam

Next Meetings

All-hands meeting on Thursday, 25 October 2012, at 9am PT (time chart) - IIW XV week
NO meeting on Thursday, 1 November 2012, at 9am PT - too many people out!
FOCUS meeting on Thursday, 8 November 2012, at 9am PT (time chart) - technical - Eve regrets - Maciej will chair - summertime skew! UK/Europe one hour earlier than usual
FOCUS meeting on Thursday, 15 November 2012, at 9am PT (time chart) - technical/interop - UK/Europe back to "normal"
NO meeting on Thursday, 22 November 2012, at 9am PT - U.S. Thanksgiving holiday
All-hands meeting on Thursday, 29 November 2012, at 9am PT (time chart) - educational and all topics