Groups - Bi-weekly PSTC meeting modified

[Gary.Cole@oracle.com]

Bi-weekly PSTC meeting has been modified by Gary Cole

Date:  Monday, 06 June 2011
Time:  02:00pm - 03:00pm ET

Event Description:
This is for the biweekly PSTC meeting. This will occur every other Monday at 2pm EST. We will be using the following dial-in (same as on past calls): +1 (866) 434-5269 x 9406791

Agenda:
1) Roll
2) Approve minutes from May 23 meeting
3) Discuss ballot results
4) AOB

Minutes:
Chairs: Richard Sand, Gary Cole 

Attendees: 
Tom Zeller (Internet2) 
Gary Cole (Oracle) 
Hal Lockhart (Oracle) 
Prateek Mishra (Oracle) 
Kent Spaulding (Oracle) 
Richard Sand (Skyworth TTG) 
Karsten Huneycutt (UNC Chapel Hill) 

Agenda: 
1) Roll 
2) Approve minutes from May 23 meeting 
3) Discuss ballot results 
4) AOB 

1) Roll Call 
- Gary took roll. 
- Quorum was achieved (7 of 8 voting members attended) 
- Voting status changes: None 


2) Approval of May 23 Meeting Minutes 
- Richard Sand moves to approve the 5/23 minutes. 
- No objection. 

3. Discuss ballot results:
- 10 of 29 eligible members voted.
- 100% of voters favored defining a RESTful binding for SPML.

One comment by a respondent to the poll asked the *priority* of developing the RESTful binding.
Richard suggested that the work should be done in parallel with the existing use-cases.
Gary pointed out that this didn't fully answer the question.
Thomas Smith said that this answer was acceptable, since Richard was saying that work on the RESTful binding need not hold up work on the use-cases.

Gary summarized scope of RESTful binding as discussed on the list:
A) Operations
B) Entitles
C) Opt-In.

A) Operations:
+ ListTargets
+ CRUD
+ Search Capability (simple and advanced)
+ Password Capability
+ Suspend Capability
+ Reference Capability
+ Updates Capability (decided to keep this since synchronization and provisioning-reconciliation are important use-cases).
- Async Capability
- Batch Capability
- Bulk Capability

B) Entities, Priorities of:
First Priority: User, including attributes and attributes that represent relationships simply (e.g., names of current business-roles of user)
Second Priority: Accounts, Organizations, Groups, Roles and complex relationships (e.g., role-assignment includes reference to from-object, reference to to-object, start-date, stop-date, assigned-by....)

C) Opt-In.
As much as possible should be OPT-IN so as to minimize requirements and maximize generality for implementers.

Richard agreed that the proposed scope was good enough to get us started.

Gary: has some material he will submit to start the REST discussion:
- Gary plans to post to the wiki.
- Asks reviewers to say what is missing or seems wrong.  
- If something seems wrong, saying what would be better would also be helpful.

Prateek asked whether there would be a *standard schema* included with REST interface.
Gary said there's likely to be more agreement in more detail around User.
- Accounts have certain characteristics in common, but each type of account has different attributes.
- Predefining common object-classes and attributes, each with a specific contract, allows implementers to opt-in to standard schema.

Richard: suggested we could pick inetOrgPerson as the default for schema
Gary: likes inetOrgPerson, it does have some shortcomings e.g. attributes for user role memberships, also has some attributes that are rarely used or often misused

Gary will submit something to start the REST discussion onto the committee wiki. 

Richard will post the synchronization use-cases.

4. AOB 
- none. 

This event is one in a list of recurring events.
Other event dates in this series:

Monday, 31 January 2011, 02:00pm to 03:00pm ET
Monday, 14 February 2011, 02:00pm to 03:00pm ET
Monday, 28 February 2011, 02:00pm to 03:00pm ET
Monday, 14 March 2011, 02:00pm to 03:00pm ET
Monday, 28 March 2011, 02:00pm to 03:00pm ET
Monday, 11 April 2011, 02:00pm to 03:00pm ET
Monday, 25 April 2011, 02:00pm to 03:00pm ET
Monday, 09 May 2011, 02:00pm to 03:00pm ET
Monday, 23 May 2011, 02:00pm to 03:00pm ET
Monday, 20 June 2011, 02:00pm to 03:00pm ET

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