Agenda: XDI TC Telecon Friday 09:00 - 10:30AM PT 2014-09-12

(Apologies for sending the agenda so late this time)
XDI TC Agenda

Following is the agenda for the unofficial telecon of the XDI TC at:

Date:  Friday, 12 September 2014 USATime:  09:00AM - 10:30AM Pacific Time (16:00-17:30 UTC)

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AGENDANEWS & UPDATESXDI IRC cannel
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PRESENTATIONS/DISCUSSIONSReport from XDI editors subcommitteehttps://wiki.oasis-open.org/xdi/XdiOneSpecshttps://github.com/OASIS-XDI-Technical-Committee/xdi-spec-docbook

Link contract instantiation

Let’s continue to discuss link contracts, templates, instantiation, community contracts, requester contracts, etc.

Dan’s latest version of the XDI Policy draft spec:

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=54016&wg_abbrev=xdi

Notes from a call about link contract instantiation on Aug 19 2014 can be found here:

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/53921/LinkContractInstantiation17Aug2014.pdf

Notes from a 3 day face-to-face “deep dive” on Aug 27 2014 can be found here:

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/53986/xdi%20deep%20dive%202014-8-27.pdf

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/53985/linkcontractExamples.pdf

Some topics related to this:

Should the standard practice be to save a copy of the link contract template along with the link contract instance, and send a signed copy of both to the RA, so they are always paired, and an audit trail can see the link contract template display info that was shown to the user?

Template versioning - what if the Template Authority changes a template? How does this affect existing link contract instances?

Are community and requester link contracts required for link contract instantiation to work, or are they “good to have” extras?

How do “deferred” link contract instantiation requests look like?

Variables and variable collections
We have been using variables such as {$from} or {$msg} or {$do}.

It seems we have consensus on variable syntax, but we may need to discuss in more detail how variables are processed.
Transactional integrity
We have discussed the topic of transactional integrity a number of times in the past without reaching a conclusion. This seems to now have new relevance in conjunction with link contract instantiation.

The following document has a section titled “XDI Message Transactional Integrity Notes”, let’s review and discuss:

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/53921/LinkContractInstantiation17Aug2014.pdf
NEXT CALL
The next call is next week at the regular time.