06.25.2007 F2F Agenda

Higgins Face-to-Face meeting June 25-27, 2007

Location: at the IBM office on 425 Market Street in San Francisco Room: 5761-19-19201 (19th floor)

Hotel: Those who are participating in Catalyst may want to stay at the nearby Hilton.

The event will start Monday, June 25 at 8:30 and end Wednesday at noon.

Coffee and munchies Monday and Tues morning.

Expected Attendees

Monday morning:

1. Greg Byrd (IBM/NCSU) - working on the Configuration component
2. Mike McIntosh (IBM) - working mostly on Token Service
3. Tony Nadalin (IBM)
4. Mary Ruddy (Parity, SocialPhysics)
5. Paul Trevithick (Parity, SocialPhysics)
6. Jim Sermersheim (Novell) - working on IdAS mostly
7. Andrew (Andy) Hodgkinson (Novell) - H2 config
8. Shane Weeden (IBM, Australia)
9. Bruce Rich (IBM Austin) - working on RP
10. Anthony Bussani (IBM Zurich) - works on idemix
11. Abhi Shelat (IBM Zurich)
12. Markus Sabadello (Parity)

Later:

1. Drummond Reed (Cordance)
2. Nataraj Nagaratnam (IBM)
3. Dale Olds (Novell)
4. Kermit Snelson (Subjectivity) Tuesday and Wednesday only
5. Uppili Srinivisan (Oracle)

Monday June 25th --Prep for Interop demo (all day)

9:30 Interop Status/Review

• Run through each deployment scenario, do all scenarios interop with each other
• Paul has started to capture interop results here CardSpace_Interop (H1 only)
• TODO: Paul will update this table with latest results by the end of Monday
• Discussion of many final bugs, and issues related to interop

10:10 Paul demos H1

• If you have WinZip installed, then the Higgins.xpi tries to download as a .zip file (and you have to rename it)
• Agreed that the H2 and H3 do NOT need Terms of Service and Privacy Policy HBX Setup Wizard pages
• Discussion of need for HBX to handle H3 config as well (e.g. new option to autodetect localhost RPPS service)
• HBX: need to merge in the latest ZHBX code
• HBX's "card selector" is NON modal (some of us think this is a bug, some of us think it is a feature)
• Paul explained that the I-Card Manager (ICM) will be rewritten to use Google's GWT toolkit as its license (Apache 2.0) is more compatible with EPL than what we've been using (LGPL).
• Feedback on ICM: the "import i-card" button is too small

11:15 AndyH Status of H2

• Need Kevin Miller's Perpetual Motion Firefox plugin
  • Long term plan to add the ability to launch a native app to HBX (it's needed for H3 in any case)
  • Novell will likely volunteer to do this work (will coordinate with MaximK)
• H2 on the Bandit site:
  • YUM repository set up (use YAST)
  • RPMs with all dependencies
  • instructions, etc.

• We'll demo it tomorrow

New Higgins download Page Structure

New structure for http://www.eclipse.org/higgins/downloads.php

• Component Builds (as it is today)
  • Idas 0.8 Nightly
  • Idas 0.7 Stable

• Higgins Browser Extension
  • Higgins Browser Extension (just a simple URL (no fancy button, etc.)

• Higgins H2 Deployment Configuration
  • Source code
  • Installation package: IdAgentH2Core.rpm (binary) [Andy will send file to Mary]
  • For more information: http://www.bandit-project.org/index.php/Identity_Selector_Service_Download

2:30pm AnthonyB and AndyH I-card store APIs

• The proposal is that Higgins standardize an API for managing i-card storage. This would be a lower level API from the I-Card Provider issues
• Anthony presented IBM's CardStore interfaces
  • synchFromMap()
  • synchFromStore() (e.g. to .crds file)
• Andy
  • store returns an identifier and a blob--this is what an i-card is instantiated from
• Questions
  • All agree that it is an import/export format
  • No presumption that .crds is the working format
• Requirements
  • Should it work with USB (e.g. moveable media)
  • Andy: we already support multiple card stores. The UI component can be actively looking for new stores (e.g. USB key being plugged in) or a hot folder can be specified. We're using the Gnome keyring to store pw. You create a cardstore (automatically put an entry in the keyring associated with the guid of the store). We assoc a pw with the gui of the store. If you take it to another machine.
  • Multiple instances of the CardStore implementations
  • Paul: the question is what layer for triggering should happen.
  • Andy: probably better to have higher level
  • Andy: we need a common exchange format AND storage format. E.g. H1, H2, H3 could all point to.
  • H1: for scalability reasons will probably have to migrate a file to a db-based
  • Paul: we can all agree on the need for common interchange formats
  • Decision1: Higgins will use .crds as the common interchange format
  • Decision2: Higgins will define new card types (beyond p-cards, m-cards)
  • Decision3: Higgins will standardize on Thomas/Anthony's CardStoreStrategy interface. H1 and H2 will adapt to it.

2:55 review of i-card terminology

• Paul presented; proposal is to use terms narrowly

3:05pm Greg: Configuration Component

• Mike: wants to look at what OSGI can provide and figure out how this relates to the work we've done so far in the Configuration. Want to fit well into the OSGI model (if it is present).

IdAS Registry -> Discovery Generalization Discussion

• Need to define requirements better (ability to enumerate is sometimes needed). Some just drop a .jar into a folder; some need complex configuring.
• Should we define the use cases for each component where we have "registry"-like needs

First step:

• Write a new IdAS Registry (define new interfaces)
• Useful idea: XRDS ConfigHandler -> ConfigurableInstance
• Novell's Context Providers are already implementing ConfigurableComponent
  • Get Factory, configure it with the stuff that will end up in the XRDS SEP
• Parity will do the same

• Decision: Markus and Drummond to create a proposal for how this first registry can work with (a) just a local XRDS file (b) a resolver running on localhost and (c) normal internet-scale XRI resolution

List of Topics

• HBX Updates and convergence
• ISS Updates and convergence
• Develop on plan/process for harmonizing H2/Native vs. Java architectures
• Higgins Relying parties and their derivatives
• IdAS
• I-Card Manager
• RPPS / ZRPPS architecture discussion
  • Why IBM's ISS code doesn't call ICard.requestDigitalIdentity()
  • (We also need a new name for the RPPS Component)
• Discuss i-card wikipedia page; our use of the term "personal" vs. "self-issued"
• Discuss I-Card Interfaces <-- this wiki page is really out of date. Will update b4 meeting.
• Equinox integration
• Higgins Development processes
  • What's not working (e.g. missing nightly build scripts, build script compiler??, automated tests, test doc, missing wiki pages, etc.)
  • General policy for refactoring packages
• Milestone 0.9
  • Declaring victory on M0.8
  • Planning out M0.9
  • Scheduling next F2F and next demo

See Also

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