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This page provides an overview of what's being developed or has been developed for Higgins 1.1. Many of the items on this page have been pulled from the overall long term wishlist here: Backlog and sub-backlog pages linked from it (e.g. Website Backlog, etc.). Our process should be to describe and discuss the tasks here. When we know which milestone they will belong to we create bugzilla items for them appropriately.

Overview

• TBD release date for Higgins 1.1
• Items are logged as
  • HIGH have high probability of being completed in upcoming sprints by June 09.
  • DONE are already or nearly completed.
• Upcoming milestone: Higgins_1.1M7
• Enter a bug

Higgins Selector

Goals

• Get all selector solutions to use the same Higgins Browser Extension (for each supported browseR) and the Higgins Selector Switch as shown here: Selector Overview
  • Selector 1.1 GTK [BUGZILLA#?]
  • Selector 1.1 Cocoa [BUGZILLA#?]
• Add support for non-I-Card authentication methods into HBX. We’re interested in both OpenID and plain old username/password. There’ve been discussions within OSIS, and with members of the IDIB project about collaborating on this.
• We have a Higgins Selector Switch (and related components) for Windows. We neeed to port HSS to Mac OSX (and preferably Linux too.) - DONE (checked in?)
• Documentation. Revise all selector solutions wiki pages to indeed be solutions: meaning that they describe ALL of the components required to work. [This means that the solutions wiki pages for all but the Selector 1.1 Win-AIR need to be updated to add mention of HSS, HBX, and [in some cases] Higgins Server components or component sets] - HIGH

Variants

• Selector 1.1 Win-AIR - for Firefox and IE
  • Add support for new card types to at least one selector variant:
    • Password Cards - HIGH
    • R-Card - HIGH
    • OpenID - under discussion only
  • get Parity to check in all code updates (e.g. new AIR ICM with skinnable "Higgins" UI branding (like what Andy did)) [BUGZILLA#?]
• Selector 1.1 GTK - for Firefox (also callable by local apps) on Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows. This is a client-based native code app
  • DOC: Need to update architecture diagrams here Selector 1.1 GTK with new HSS, new Synchronizing Card Store, etc. - HIGH [BUGZILLA#?]
  • Note: This selector solution will use the new Selector Architecture Harmonization architecture.
• Web Selector - Web-based I-Card Selector for Higgins Server. Speaks OpenID with AX. DONE
  • Need second factor for auth,
  • Need anti-phishing protection. One idea:
    • ask for username(iname)
    • display some recently used cards
    • then ask for password (while asking if the above cards look familiar). Hmmm or should we ask for a photograph during account provisioning?
• iPhone Selector - I-Card Manager (standalone app) and I-Card Selector (MobileSafari plugin) for the iPhone - DONE

Identity Services

Identity Provider web services:

• STS IdP - WS-Trust Identity Provider (webapp and web service)
  • Get it to support WS-Trust 1.3 244073 and SOAP 1.2 227044.
• SAML2 IdP - SAML2 Identity Provider (webapp and web service)
  • Enhance so that in addition to authenticating users against a Higgins IdAS Context, it can also authenticate users with an information card. Note that it does not yet issue cards. - DONE

Relying Party website or service:

• Extensible Protocol RP Website 1.1 - I-Card-enabled Relying Party site (webapp) - DONE

Attribute Services

Java Frameworks, Libraries & Models

• IdAS Solution 1.1: A basic configuration of the Identity Attribute Service 1.1 (IdAS). IdAS is a java framework that provides a common interface to identity, profile, and relationship data from external data sources (e.g. websites, databases, directories) and expose them via the IdAS interfaces.
  • With Higgins 1.1, there were some changes to the IdAS Authentication Materials. The goals of these changes were (1)To have identifiers for Authentication Material types, in order to be able to discover this information via UDI Resolution and (2) To be able to easily (de)serialize Authentication Materials. The changes made include the following:
    • Introduce a marker interface IAuthnMaterials, which all Authentication Materials classes implement
    • Define string constants for the common kinds of Authentication Materials that we have
    • Reduce Authentication Materials classes to simple Java Beans (i.e. remove business logic, and reference to IContext in constructor)
• Context Data Model 1.1: (CDM) is an RDF/OWL-based common data model implemented by IdAS 1.1.
• XDI4j - General purpose library for XDI (see the Wikipedia page on XDI)

Web Services

New for Higgins 1.1..

• IDS: is a new web service called the Identity Data Service. It provides RESTful bindings (using a variety of protocols such as XDI, Plaxo Portable Contacts, etc.) over IdAS

Components

IdAS-related components

• Google Contacts CP - DONE
• CDM 1.1 - HIGH - Paul will do this
• CDM Access control - priority
• Restful Binding - priority
• IdAS support for new CDM and initial access control - priority
• Models as entities, especially data types - priority
• RDF CP
• JNDI/LDAP CP
• Access Control CP?
• Open Social CP
• JDBC CP

STS-related components

• SOAP1.2 - HIGH
• WS-Trust 1.3 - HIGH
• PPID algorithm support for v1.5 - DONE

Higgins Browser Extension Component

Besides making sure that all H1.1 Selector solutions use the same HBXes, we also need to add support for:

• un/pw login - HIGH
• Microsoft's new CardTile option - HIGH
• Work with Axel to integrate his new XRD discovery code - HIGH
• Merge IDIB code (if possible), else recode in HBX - priority -- depends on what we want to show at RSA 2009 interop

Experimental:

• Password Cards - includes "PWMgr" a proposed enhancement to the Higgins Browser Extension (initially its own extension)

Higgins Selector Switch Component

• Versions for
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • MacOSX - HIGH
• Merge connectors into the HSS - HIGH - [Jeesmon]
• Windows selector connector for CardSpace and AIR - DONE
• DigitalMe selector connectors (need MacOSX, Windows and Linux) - HIGH [Andy]

Infrastructure & Cross-cutting Improvements

Selector 1.0 wiki doc

GTK_and_Cocoa_Selector_1.0:

• split above page into two Selector 1.0 GTK and Selector 1.1 Mac-Cocoa being careful to move common content to common pages to eliminate duplication of content in these three new pages
• replace Selector 1.0 GTK page with three separate pages Selector 1.0 Win-GTK, Selector 1.0 FreeBSD-GTK, and Selector 1.0 Linux-GTK being careful to move common content to common pages to eliminate duplication of content in these three new pages
• update http://wiki.eclipse.org/Selector_Overview#Higgins_1.0_Selector replacing the one link to GTK and Cocoa Selector 1.0 with these four:
  • Selector 1.0 Mac-Cocoa - client-based native code selector for Firefox or other local apps
  • Selector 1.0 Win-GTK - as above
  • Selector 1.0 Linux-GTK - as above
  • Selector 1.0 FreeBSD-GTK - as above

Website: New Components Page(s)

• Instead of all components for Higgins 1.0 and Higgins 1.1 mixed together on a single page, we create two separate pages: Components 1.0 and Components 1.1
• The appearance of each of the two Components pages would be the same as today's single Components page with these exceptions:
  • The "H1.0" and "H1.1" columns (with LEDs) are no longer needed
  • We create the two replacement pages as .PHP web pages NOT wiki pages. This has two advantages (i) the current Components page is the only wiki page on the site to which the new style sheet can't be used (rather than debug the problem with the wiki templates and the .css we just eliminate the problem) (ii) we can ADD BACK a "Nightly" column with RED/GREEN indicators to see what components are building nightly.
  • We will have to create PHP functions that are the equivalent of the wiki templates used on this page
• The current components page is linked from the left-hand menu. The two new pages are linked from the new downloads page (see below) when that page is ready.

Website: New Downloads Page

• 218923

Here is the basic content of the new download page:

Higgins 1.0

• table as below

Higgins 1.1

• demo VirtualBox Linux image of a selector, and IdP, and some RP (and all source code) [ideally this would be updated every milestone]

• 1.1M7 Table: Solutions
  • Section: Higgins Selector
    • Row: Selector Mac-AIR PSF <auto-built-download-page> MAN-BLD-LED INT-LED MAN-REG-TEST-LED <owner>
    • Row: Selector Win-AIR PSF <auto-built-download-page> MAN-BLD-LED INT-LED MAN-REG-TEST-LED <owner>
  • Section: Identity Services
    • Row: etc.
  • Section: Attribute Services
    • Row: etc.
• Components 1.0 - link to a .php page (not a wiki page): only components that are part of one of the above solutions (not old 1.0 components)

Where:

• PSF - a link to a PSF with every eclipse project needed to build and run the solution
• MAN-BLD-LED - a RED/GRN LED that indicates if this solution can be manually built from scratch from instructions on the wiki page for this solution (using the PSF)
• MAN-REG-TEST-LED - pass/fail LED on manual regression test (listed on solutions wiki page)
• INT-LED - is this solution internationalized

Mock up: A wiki based mock-up of what the new page would look like: New Higgins 1.1 Mock-Up

Split Dependencies

• Breaking every jar into its own Eclipse project (relationship to Orbit) (Mary to ask for volunteer on the list.)

Internationalization

• Internationalization of certain CPs - done
• Evaluate how could internationalization the clients so that can outsource creating localized versions.

Components Page

• Comb through Components page and correct all missing wiki pages, etc.
  • Improve Components page by showing
    • Make it easy to see which component is used in 1.0, 1.1 or both - [DONE]
    • Make it easy to see which components are building properly in the nightly build

Galileo

• Galileo - need to create a prioritized list of "to do"s even though we will not be part of Galileo so that we'll be in better shape for next year

Website

• Website Improvements Done for 1.1