Kantara Initiative UMA Work Group Report for 2010-Q2
Reporting on: 2010-Q2
Date Submitted: July 10, 2010
Group Name: User-Managed Access (UMA) Work Group
Filled Officer Positions and Names:
- Chair: Eve Maler (elected 18 Aug 2009)
- Vice-Chair: Maciej Machulak (elected 27 May 2010)
- Specification Editor: Christian Scholz (elected 10 Jun 2010)
- Use Cases Editor: Hasan Akram (elected 18 Aug 2009)
- Domenico Catalano, Graphics/UX Editor (elected 14 Jan 2010)
- Maciej Machulak, Implementation Coordinator (informal)
Vacant Officer Positions and Names:
What are the current active number of:
- Total Participants: 82 (8 more since Q1)
- Voting Participants: 10 (3 fewer since Q1)
- Non-Voting Participants: 72 (11 more since Q1)
- Total Email List Subscribers: 114 (8 more since 20 Apr 2010)
Published Teleconference Frequency: weekly (for whole-group telecons), additional ad hoc telecons for smaller interest groups
Number of Teleconferences this Quarter: 11 WG telecons (8 quorate)
Number of Quorate Physical Meetings this Quarter: 0
Number of Non-Quorate Physical Meetings this Quarter: 0
Number of Draft Specifications Produced this Quarter: 6
- New Claims 2.0
- New Simple Access Authorization Claims
- New Legal Considerations in UMA Authorization
- New Dynamic Client Registration (planned to be submitted as input to IETF as an I-D and be referenced from Core Protocol eventually)
- New Resource Registration API (possibly to be folded into core protocol later)
- Revised Core Protocol
Number of Reports Produced this Quarter: 0
Deadlines the Group will face in the forthcoming quarter:
- Expiration of Group Leadership (e.g. Chair): Chair, Use Cases Editor
- Deadlines listed in the Group Charter (e.g. duration expiration): none
- Group-Imposed Deadlines: none
Other Comments:
- UMA now has one known complete implementation: "UMA/j" framework and User Experience implementation in Java (SMART project at Newcastle University); it will ultimately be open-sourced. UX testers are actively being sought by this project.
- Voting participation has dropped again slightly, but a significant number of non-voting participants continue to join telecons regularly.
- The WG is now using github as a working area for active spec development, in coordination with Kantara staff.
- The UMA WG won a budget allocation of $4000 for use as a bounty to hosted validator developers, to be offered mid-year (i.e., now). We need to further prepare for this inside the WG (e.g. by revising our specs comprehensively) and coordinate with Kantara staff how to announce this bounty.