Agenda: XDI TC Telecon Friday 09:00 - 10:30AM PT 2014-11-28

XDI TC Agenda

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

Date:  Friday, 28 November 2014 USATime:  09:00AM - 10:30AM Pacific Time (16:00-17:30 UTC)

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AGENDANEWS & UPDATESPRESENTATIONS/DISCUSSIONS
Dictionary patterns

Drummond has worked on a wiki page with patterns for XDI dictionaries:

https://wiki.oasis-open.org/xdi/XdiDictionaryPatterns

Drummond has also updated the following wiki pages accordingly:

https://wiki.oasis-open.org/xdi/XdiDictionaryReqs

https://wiki.oasis-open.org/xdi/XbnfRules

ABNF progress

Joseph has created a more complete version of the XDI ABNF that validates successfully in the APG parser:

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xdi/201411/msg00020.html

https://wiki.oasis-open.org/xdi/XdiAbnf

http://www.coasttocoastresearch.com/interactiveapg

Markus has added an experimental ABNF-based parser to the XDI2 code:

https://server.xdi2.org/no-value-node/XDIParser

https://github.com/projectdanube/xdi2/tree/no-value-node

Markus has proposed changes to Joseph’s ABNF in the above message thread.
XDI Messaging and XDI Bindings contributions
Markus has worked on new content for the specs:

XDI Messaging: Definitions of $get, $set, $del, $add, $mod operations

XDI Binding: XDI Browser Binding

See latest versions on “markussabadello” branch:

http://xdi.org/xdi-spec-docbook-markussabadello/xdi/xdi-bindings-1.0/xdi-bindings-1.0-wd02.xml

http://xdi.org/xdi-spec-docbook-markussabadello/xdi/xdi-messaging-1.0/xdi-messaging-1.0-wd02.xml

See pull request:

https://github.com/OASIS-XDI-Technical-Committee/xdi-spec-docbook/pull/10

XDI Policy and Connections

Let’s continue to discuss XDI connection requests, connection invitations, link contracts, templates, community contracts, requester contracts, etc.

Open topics:

Review what happens when a connection invitation is processed.

What do “deferred” connection requests look like, and how are they processed? How do we handle cases where user interaction is required?

Template versioning - what if the Template Authority changes a template? How does this affect existing LC instances? Should versioning for LC templates be mandatory?

Topics discussed previously:

Discuss different ways for an RA to receive a copy of a new link contract instance

Challenge of correlating message requests and responses (see below)

Issue related to having multiple link contract instances based on one link contract template (how to algorithmically determine the address?)

Insight: A link contract instance may be used by many authorities that can satisfy a policy _expression_ (e.g. groups, roles, organization membership)

Insight: Just like there can be a connection invitation, there can also be invitations for any other operation, e.g. $get

Collection of Documents:

XDI Policy draft spec:

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/54276/XDIPolicyDraft%20v8.docx

XDI Connections draft spec:

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/54279/XDI%20Connections%20V1.docx

Link Contract Instantiation:

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/54205/LinkContractInstantiation25Sep2014.pdf

Community Link Contracts:

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/54287/Community%20link%20contracts%20-%20Google%20Docs.pdf

Berkeley Deep Dive notes:

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
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.