2023-01-03 ACCESS EC Meeting Agenda & Summary

Owned by Lavanya Podila
Last updated: Jan 03, 2023
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Attendees:

  • RAMPS: Stephen Deems (v), Dave Hart

  • MATCH: Shelley Knuth (v), Julie Ma

  • CONECT: Tim Boerner (v), Leslie Froeschl

  • MMS: Tom Furlani (v), Joe White

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

  • NSF: Tom Gulbransen (NSF)

  • Guest Speaker: Alex Withers

(v) indicates a voting member

Agenda/Notes

  1. Approval of the Privacy Policy @Alex Withers (10 minutes)

    1. ACCESS Privacy Policy

    2. EC members to review the privacy policy this week

    3. Tom G to share policy with a fellow program officer at NSF to get informal feedback

    4. EC to vote on the approval of privacy policy during next week’s EC meeting (10th January 2023)

  2. Changes to ACCESS 2FA Authentication and get input from the other @Alex Withers (10 minutes)

    1. Background - Due to DUO changing hands and several price increases, there’s a decision to move to another authentication company called Cirrus Identity

    2. What this means from a users point of view - Users will not be using DUO anymore, they can either use app called privacy idea or google authenticator or a UB key

    3. Users will have to go through an extra manual step

    4. Alex’s team is drafting a technical and communication plan on how this will be deployed, the plan is to have it up and going simultaneously with DUO and as fall arrives, users can seamlessly transition and stop using DUO

    5. Plan is to fully replace DUO and be operational before fall

    6. Alex to bring this topic back when there is a plan in place and share with the EC.

    7. More information on cirrus identity and privacy idea app can be found below:

    https://www.cirrusidentity.com

    https://www.privacyidea.org

  3. Approval of summaries from prior EC meetings @Shawn Strande (5 mins)

    1. 20 December 2022 EC Summary (approved)

       

  4. Informational Items (10 mins)

    1. RAMPS @Stephen Deems

    2. MATCH @Shelley Knuth

      1.  

    3. CONECT @Tim Boerner

    4. MMS @Tom Furlani

      1.  

    5. OpenCI @John Towns


  5. Misc Topics

    1. EAB (@Shawn Strande )

      1. 2 people still needed for the EAB

      2. One from the research advisory board and one from the SP/RP forum

      3. User advisory board charter has been drafted by Julie and Laura Herriot; waiting for some validation and it is targeted to complete in the next couple months

    2. Action item for Lavanya and John to create a cadence for the working groups to start presenting during the EC meeting

      1. There’s a request for the Branding/Web Presence WG to give regular updates

    3. Overall program schedule @Tom Gulbransen

      1. Ron is requested to present an update on how the collective program schedule is going? Will the planned milestones etc be indicated on the schedule?

    4.  Authentication @Tom Furlani

      1. There needs to be some oversight from each of the awardees since users still have to re-authenticate while logging into different portals

      2. Ron to take a look into this open item

Reference: EC Backlog

Next EC Meeting: 10 January 2022