January 17, 2001
Attendees

* Jim Jokl (chair) - Virginia
* Michael Gettes - Georgetown
* Kevin Unrue - Cornell
* Bob Morgan - Washington
* Deb Crocker - Alabama
* Neal McBurnett - Avaya
* Renee Frost - Michigan/Internet2
* Keith Hazelton - Wisconsin
* Jeff Schiller - MIT/CREN
* Eric Norman - Wisconsin
* Judith Boettcher - CREN
* Ken Klingenstein - Colorado/Internet2
* Bob James - Pitt
* Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2
* Others joined and left the call at various times.

Discussion

After approving the minutes, TAG reviewed some of the action items from the previous call. Bob M. was on the initial conference call of the OASIS S2ML technical committee last week, and plans to continue his participation. All the organizations that should be participating, are; the committee aims to have v1.0 ready by June 1. Bob hasn't contacted Tim Polk yet. Ken's Grid contacts have responded enthusiastically to his ID-certs query.

The group discussed the length of TAG calls, and agreed to keep the calls at their current 60-90 minutes.

The TAG mobility group is seeking consensus on a regular conference call schedule. Of the four scenarios that TAG committed to provide for IETF-SACRED, all but root certs have been submitted. It was noted that SACRED is concerned with protocols; how much it will deal with formats is unknown. Jeff observed that as SACRED has no clear constituency, it would be useful for TAG to go to SACRED with a clear statement of the problems faced by higher education, which could then be used to guide SACRED's discussions. On the other hand, it would not be useful for TAG to recommend (for example) PKCS 12 over PKCS 15. It was agreed that comments on the scenarios will be taken on the TAG list until the end of this week, after which [AI] Bob M. or Neal will send the scenarios to IETF-SACRED.

The group reviewed Jim's PKI applications document; new applications suggested included undergraduate electronic voting, S/MIME, JSTOR, sysadmin login access, and Grid certs. Bob M. noted that the discussion so far has tended to confound apps with apps technologies; [AI] Jim will add an apps technologies column to the the PKI apps document. [AI] All will send changes to the PKI apps document to Jim, who will compile them. Ken asked that the PKI apps document be developed with a view toward providing a cert profile to recommend to institutions where there's a clear need for identity. In particular, he asked the group to think of apps that could make use of a pseudonymous identifier, while including a mechanism that allows the receiving party to make further inquiries, perhaps detailed enough to identify a particular person.

Finally there was a review of an assortment of "queued topics". The private key protection work is on hold. Jeff and Michael are both available for the Feb. 14 TAG call, so [AI] Jim will add heDRCD to the agenda for Feb. 14. Michael, Judith, David, Keith, Jim, and Ken are re-reading the HEBCA CP draft, focusing this time on technical issues. [AI] The HEBCA CP review group will aim to finish its review over the next week or so. [AI] Michael will send TAG comments on the HEBCA CP draft. [AI] Bob M. will review recent dc-naming discussion on the PKIX list.
Action Items

* [AI] Bob M. or Neal will send the scenarios to IETF-SACRED.
* [AI] Jim will add an apps technologies column to the the PKI apps document.
* [AI] All will send changes to the PKI apps document to Jim, who will compile them.
* [AI] Jim will add heDRCD to the agenda for Feb. 14.
* [AI] The HEBCA CP review group will aim to finish its review over the next week or so.
* [AI] Michael will send TAG comments on the HEBCA CP draft.
* [AI] Bob M. will review recent dc-naming discussion on the PKIX list.