Introduction of New Leaders
This Plenary marks a new phase in the IDESG development as it passes from an interim leadership team to one elected for a first full term under its recently adopted rules. The Santa Clara Plenary began with remarks from Plenary Chair, Bob Blakley; Management Council Chair, Peter Brown; and NSTIC National Program Office Director, Jeremy Grant, followed by an introduction of the newly elected Management Council Members and Plenary Leaders. Special recognition was given to the outgoing Management Council leaders who did not stand for re-election: Brett McDowell, past chair; Mary Ruddy, Aaron Titus, past stakeholder delegates, and Jay Unger, past stakeholder delegate and chair of the Technical Advisory Subcommittee.
Work Planning Subcommittee Recommendations
Paul Laurent, chair of the Management Council Work Planning Subcommittee, kicked off the meeting with an update of the IDESG Work Plan recommendations. The Work Plan covers IDESG Priority Objectives, IDESG Priority Activities, and IDESG Structural Issues. The five priority objectives for 2013 that the subcommittee recommended are:
- Establish and implement an IDESG Self-Sustainment Plan
- Establish and implement an IDESG Accreditation and Trustmark Program
- Establish defined liaison relationships
- Implement IDESG Accreditation Program for at least two NSTIC Pilots
- Establish and implement the Identity Ecosystem Framework Development and Adoption Process
You can read more about these recommendations in the Workplanning Report Slides.pdf and the Work Planning Word Document.
Use Case Workshop - Notes and Next Steps
After a break the group launched into a Use Case Workshop led by Standards Coordination Committee Chair Cathy Tilton and Scott Shorter. Use cases are important to our work across the IDESG because they help define the problem(s) we are trying to solve, provide a context for the development of other work products, which can be "tested" against the use cases, and generally keep our collective efforts aligned. The intent is to develop high level "functional" use cases which provide the "what and why", but not the "how" of a given user story or scenario....READ MORE
