2023-03-14 ACCESS EC Meeting Agenda & Summary

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Last updated: Mar 15, 2023
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Attendees:

  • RAMPS: Stephen Deems (v), Dave Hart

  • MATCH: Shelley Knuth (v), Alana Romanella

  • CONECT: Tim Boerner (v), Leslie Froeschl

  • MMS: Tom Furlani (v), Joe White

  • OpenCI: John Towns (v), Shawn Strande, Ron Payne, Lavanya Podila, Lisa Kaczmarczyk

  • NSF: Tom Gulbransen

  • Guest Speaker: Alex Withers

(v) indicates a voting member

Agenda/Notes

  1. Multifactor Authentication Solution @Tim Boerner (15 mins)

    1. To discuss the decision about moving from Duo to Cirrus.

    2. Remaining life of cost estimates requested for review prior to or during the call.

    3. Alex Withers is not available this week. The topic will be moved to a future EC meeting. However, Alex’s update is, “We have put that the MFA transition on hold and will renew Duo for another year to give us more time.”

  2. Approval of summaries from prior EC meetings @John Towns (5 mins)

    1. 7 March 2023 EC Summary (approved)

  3. Discussion on in-person meeting in June @Tom Furlani (15 mins)

    1. ACO to coordinate some of the logistics and will be reaching out to the PI’s

    2. Location for in person meeting decided as Boulder, Colorado

  4. Code of Conduct Discrepancy @John Towns (10 mins)

    1. Approved ACCESS Program Code of Conduct vs. Support Code of Conduct

    2. General agreement that there should only be one code of conduct

    3. EC to look into both of the code of conducts and will be discussed during next week's EC meeting

  5. Supplement Request @John Towns (5 mins)

    1. Draft of text

    2. This topic will be added to the EC agenda for next week to check on the progress

  6. Informational Items (10 mins)

    1. RAMPS @Stephen Deems

      1. Allocations Cadence

        1. Next request window:

          • March 15 (Request window opens)

          • April 15 (Request window closes) 

          • Early June (Review meeting) 

          • Mid June (Notifications sent to requestors) 

          • July 1 (Start/renewal date)

        2. The following Maximize ACCESS cycle will happen with proposal submissions from June 15 to July 15, with awards starting October 1.

        3. Going forward, ACCESS Allocations will be moving to a semi-annual cycle for Maximize ACCESS requests with start dates in April and October. 

    2. MATCH @Shelley Knuth

      1.  

    3. CONECT @Tim Boerner

      1. See above for info re. extending Duo license through PY2.

      2. The ticketing WG continues toward an April 1 deployment date. The team has been communicating with RPs and is offering multiple training sessions to assist with the transition. 

    4. MMS @Tom Furlani

      1.  

    5. OpenCI @John Towns

      1. Please update milestones/deliverable Google sheet circulated by Ron

      2. John starting to DRAFT ACCESS paper for PEARC

      3. ACO:Support team:team meeting on Thursday

      4. Beginning planning for late June in-person, program -wide meeting

      5. Finalizing PEP based on last comments.

      6. EAB report

      7. Working group discussion piece

Misc Topics

  1. Ticketing and IAM working groups to have priority for working group updates for the next 2 weeks

Reference: EC Backlog & Action Items

Next EC Meeting: 21 March 2023