Meltem Y. Kurtman
July 30, 2013
Present:
Dave Wallace (Chair), Meltem Kurtman (Acting Secretary), Bill Baer, Bruce Campbell, Marko Dumancic, Bob Hicks, Bill Ince, Dave Kibble, Dawn Keenan, Carl Nagel, Jason Testart
Guest:
Ray Butterworth
Regrets:
Andrea Chappell, Melissa Conrad, Erick Engleke, Robyn Landers, Paul Miskovsky, Terry Stewart
Agenda
- Chair’s remarks (Dave Wallace) [1:30pm-1:40pm]
- Approval of the minutes of the meeting of July 11, 2013 and business arising [1:40pm-1:50pm]
- IDM Roadmap Project Charter ( Jason Testart) [1:50-2:10pm]
- Enterprise Architecture, and Organize for Success update (Dave Wallace, Bob Hicks) [2:10-2:20pm]
- Updates (2:20-2:50pm; Various)
- Email (Bruce Campbell)
- Active Directory (Bruce Campbell)
- Green IT (Marko Dumancic)
- IT security (Jason Testart)
- Campus Firewall Project (Bruce Campbell)
- Student Printing (Bill Baer)
- Other business (2:50-3:00pm)
- Next Computing Technology and Services Committee (CTSC) meeting
[Will be held Thursday, August 8, 2013, at 1:30 p.m., in Mathematics & Computing building (MC) 2018A.]
Chair's remarks
The Chair noted that there is continued work on overall budgets. We are close to accommodating the changes that are happening. There will be a meeting with the Provost tomorrow and a much more detailed one in August.
Andrea Chappell is working on options for updated IT governance and Dave Kibble is helping. It will go to University Committee on Information Systems & Technology (UCIST) in September.
Approval of the minutes of the meeting of June 27, 2013
The minutes of the meeting of July 11, 2013 were approved as distributed.
IDM Road Map Project Charter (Jason Testart)
Testart talked about the next generation Identity (IDM) and Access Management systems. His presentation included:
- Program Goals
- Program Structure (Three Phases)
- Timelines (Two years starting in Fall 2013)
Identity Management and Access management are two different things. Waterloo Identity and Access Management (WatIAM) is access management; it will come to its end of life in 2017 at which time there will be no more support. This is another driver for the program.
Security architecture, as per Policy 8, will be part of the Enterprise Architecture that is being introduced. There will be single sign on and centralized authorization for web based applications.
Questions and discussion
- What is the scope of the project?
- Anyone with a Waterloo userid is considered within the scope of this project.
- What is missing?
- Funding and staffing. Will send the presentation slides to this group to see who might be interested in being part of this project.
- Is there a mechanism to deal with current problems?
- People are advised to document the problems they are encountering and rank them in terms of pain. If something is painful enough and fixable, maybe we can do that. Governance will make that decision.
- A lot of the problems are not IT; they are procedures. For example, when a student graduates and applies to grad school, he cannot access his email. In these cases, a manual fix may have to be done.
- Other universities are in similar situations.
- We have to determine early on who from the functional areas will be on the project.
Testart will give another update in early September.
Testarts’s IDM Roadmap Project presentation (PDF) is available here.
Enterprise Architecture and Organize for Success update (Dave Wallace, Bob Hicks)
- The job posting for the Director of Enterprise Systems and Director of Enterprise Architecture are out.
- There was a piece on IST’s Organize for Success in the Daily Bulletin.
Updates
Email (Bruce Campbell)
No update.
Active Directory (Bruce Campbell)
No update.
Green IT (Marko Dumancic)
No update.
IT security (Jason Testart)
An update on Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) was sent by email.
Campus Firewall Project (Bruce Campbell)
No update.
Student Printing (Bill Baer)
The strong candidate is looking stronger. Comfortable with the upcoming two pilots. As time goes on more people will join the pilot.
Other business
- Planning for the next WatITis is coming up. Program offerings will not be available until October. Meltem Kurtman will contact Lowell Williamson to find out who will be leading the Conference this year.
- Williamson informed Kurtman that Kevin Paxman (kpaxman@uwaterloo.ca) will be doing Logistics and Jenn Brewster (jenn.brewster@uwaterloo.ca) will be in charge of Programming. They are the co-chairs for WatITis 2013.
Next meeting
The next meeting will be held Thursday, August 8th, 2010 at 1:30 p.m. in MC 2018A.