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The UCTrust Work Group is comprised of identity management professionals at all of UC's campuses, as well as service providers that utilize the UCTrust federation. As of 2013, UCTrust is a subgroup of the UC IT Architecture Group Committee (ITAGITAC), which in turn reports to UC's Information Technology Leadership Council (ITLC). ITLC ultimately serves as the governing board for resolution and adoption of recommendations made by UCTrust and endorsed by ITAGITAC.
This group meets regularly for the following purposes:
Advise the ITAGITAC, the UC ITS Enterprise Architecture groupcommittee, and the ITLC on issues related to identity management - creation and management of digital identity, authentication, person profile data/directory services, central authorization management, and management and exchange of person profile date.
- Provide campus-level input on identity management design for system-wide applications
- Partner with the UC ITS EA Team, and particular the IAM Lead at UCOP, on the definition and adoption of reference architectures for UC identity management services
- Coordinate with other UC IT working groups to promote compatible standards and best practices
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On behalf of the ITLC, UC campuses and medical centers, the primary responsibility of UCTrust, as a subgroup of ITAGITAC, is to provide input on design and implementation of identity management solutions for the UC system and to foster collaboration on IAM solutions among the campuses. Members are expected to attend monthly conference calls and periodic in-person meetings, and to volunteer as necessary/appropriate for topic-specific task forces to address priority concerns. UCTrust members meet regularly for the following purposes:
- Discussion of technical, policy, and operational issues related to UCTrust. As appropriate, issues and recommendations are forwarded to ITAG ITAC for endorsement and then passed on to ITLC for resolution and adoption.
- Discussion of technical, policy, and operational issues related to campus identity management systems with the goal of fostering effective identity management practices throughout UC.
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- Collaboration with project-specific implementation teams, to ensure appropriate deployment and utilization of identity management approaches that comply with UCTrust federation standards and are design to interoperate well with campus IAM systems.
- Engage in discovery, review, and planning of interoperable solutions that meet the defined need and satisfies the intended purpose
- Champion and facilitate campus utilization of IAM-specific EA principles, standards, reference architectures, infrastructures, information, and tools
- Identify and apply lessons learned, perform lifecycle management (continuous improvement and maturity) of the EA body of knowledge
- Facilitation of communications across our respective campuses, in consultation with and as guided by the ITAG ITAC and ITLC
- Broadly communicate UC’s vision for information technology architectures and interoperability to campus and medical center stakeholders
- Represent our respective campus stakeholder investments, and advocate for our campus communities with regard to architectural planning and decision-making
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UCTrust membership consists of one representative from each UC location - campus, medical center, Office of the President, and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, as well as a representative from the California Digital Library. Each location's ITLC representative (typically the CIO) appoints his/her ITAG ITAC member, who shall be afforded the necessary empowerment to act in accordance with the purpose and responsibilities of the ITAGITAC.
Campus Representation
Membership shall consist of the following representatives:
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- Convening the UCTrust meetings, and coordinating activities, action items and deliverables across the UCTrust membership.
- Meeting regularly with the IAM Lead in the UCOP Enterprise Architecture team to plan UCTrust discussions, prepare recommendations for ITAGITAC, other subcommittees, and ITLC, and collect input from across the UC system to influence decisions related to IAM across UC.
- Coordinating the review and evaluation of requests to UCTrust, framing/scoping our recommendation for next steps (proceed with or forward to appropriate parties), and presenting to /ITAG ITAC and/or ITLC for concurrence and/or guidance
- Administering the UCTrust wiki, including structure and content, and ensuring UCTrust members and others have appropriate access and permissions to our Listserve and our Wiki
- Facilitating engagements with other UC sub-committees and working groups who may inform and/or participate in our work efforts
When voting actions are necessary, each UCTrust member carries one vote, and the Chairpersons shall confirm the necessary information is available to members before proceeding with a vote; the vote concludes when a majority are in agreement, and Chairpersons shall record the vote.
In collaboration with ITAGITAC, the Chairpersons are responsible for providing both written and oral reports to the ITLC, and facilitating reviews and prioritization of UCTrust work efforts.
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