Assurance

[Christopher A Spadanuda <>]

Dear Colleagues,

The InCommon Assurance Advisory Committee (AAC) has been working on a way for the InCommon Federation to achieve a baseline of trustworthiness for all of its interacting parts, i.e., those of its participants as well as the operations of the federation itself. In part, this work is motivated by a desire to do better than the Participant Operating Practices statements that have been requested of participants since InCommon began. These have brought transparency to operating practices to the extent that they have been published, but the approach lacks standardization, is not uniformly observed, and is not designed to help achieve any particular level of trustworthiness.

To inform changes InCommon might make to the status quo the AAC took a step back and decided to try to express, in simple and straightforward language, what those who rely on federation expect of themselves and of their federation partners. The current draft form of that _expression_ is contained in the document "Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation".  We ask for your feedback. Do the expectations reasonably reflect what you think is essential to a basic level of trust in federated transactions?

Please do not reply to this message to give your feedback! Instead, go to

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/InCAssurance/Baseline+Expectations+for+Trust+in+Federation

and record your feedback in the table at the bottom. Add as many rows as you need.

We are trying out this new way to gather such feedback in the hope that it will allow everyone to see everyone else's feedback, and in the hope that asking for feedback will not generate a massive email thread on this list that is a burden to those who are not interested in giving feedback on this topic.

Please sign in with your home credentials, if you have an IdP deployed in InCommon. You may also use a Google account or an Internet2 SiteID account. The wiki is an R&S service provider. Once you are logged into Confluence, you will be able to edit the table.

Further directions on how to login to the wiki space can be found here. https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/IWS/Getting+access+to+the+Internet2+federated+wiki

Many thanks, and I look forward to seeing what you have to say about Baseline Expectations!

Chris Spadanuda
Chair of the InCommon Assurance Advisory Committee

 

 

 

 

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Chris Spadanuda

Associate Director Core Enterprise Services

University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

University Information Technology Services

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Cell Phone: 414 507-4761