04.30.2007 F2F Agenda

Agenda for Higgins face-to-face meeting in Austin, Texas, April 30 - May 3, 2007. This is a very preliminary agenda to organize the event.

Logistics

Location: IBM Austin, 11501 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas, 78758. Report to building 904 to get your badge. The meeting will be held in building 901 room 3G17.

The event will start Monday April 30 at 1:00 and end Thursday May 3 at mid day.

Hotel List for IBM Austin. See visitor information for google map, etc.

Expected Attendees

1. Jeff Broberg (CA)
2. Greg Byrd (NCSU)--for first part only
3. Andy Hodgkinson (Novell)
4. David Kuehr-Mclaren (IBM)
5. Mike McIntosh (IBM)
6. Tony Nadalin (IBM)
7. Nataraj Nagaratnum (IBM)
8. Mary Ruddy (SocialPhysics)
9. David Recordon (VeriSign) Monday only
10. Drummond Reed (Cordance)
11. Jim Sermersheim (Novell)
12. Paul Trevithick (SocialPhysics)
13. Abhi Shelat (IBM)

Draft Agenda

(Once we have the full list we will re-order the topics.)

• Architecture/Design sessions: April 30th 1pm - May 2nd noon
• Development Discussions: May 2nd noon - May3rd noon

April 30th, Monday afternoon

HBX

• Demo of IBM ZHBX with identity mixer and cardspace support
• Review functionality, packaging, modularity, threat model
• Startup sequence
• Authentication to hosted Higgins (IdA) service

Higgins RP Support [Jeff B]

• What we need. Should we lobby Chuck?
• RP Component Design proposal [MikeM]
  • Policy Generation/Publication
    • e.g. CardSpace Object Tag Generation
  • Protocol
    • e.g. OpenId, WS-Federation, SAML Redirection
  • Token Consumption
    • e.g. CardSpace Token Decrypt, Verify, and Validate

OpenID

• Various ways to integrate OpenID

May 1st, Tuesday, Morning session

IdAS API and Data Model

• Registry refactoring (2 hours)
• Update operations (30 mins if not yet resolved)
• Review new detailed use cases - identify gaps if any, and discussed possible API enhancements (1.5 hours)
• Review/Discuss - Data model - IdAS, metadata, value - discussions (1 hour)
• IdAS APIs and SPIs - should we look at separating those? (30 mins)
• Moving to a JAAS or JAAS-like model for AuthN materials passed to IContext.open (30 mins)

May 1st, Tuesday, Afternoon session

IdAS Service Descriptions

• IdAS refactoring for service descriptions (1.5 hour)
  • Refactor or add a layer on top which exposes IdAS in a service-friendly way?

IPR

• update and risk management discussion [20 minutes - Mary Ruddy]

May 2nd, Morning Session

Design or Development session?

May 2nd, Wednesday, noon - May 3rd Thursday noon

Elbow-to-Elbow Integration / Development Discussions

• Half day or full day of working session time so that people can work F2F on their various ongoing projects.

Nightly Builds

• Branching?

Packaging

• Deployments for M0.8
• Support for multiple versions of components, should the Token Service be offered as an OSGI version also?

See Also

• Higgins Home
  • Wiki
  • Charter
  • Goals
  • Plan
  • FAQ
  • Architecture
  • Components
  • Developer Resources
  • Downloads