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The Trust and Identity Incubator is a novel way for dealing with new and potentially disruptive topics in the GÉANT project. The incubator concerns itself not only with technical aspects, but may also include other topics around service development and improvement, like business case development, or e.g. improvements in privacy or data protection. During the course of the GÉANT 4.3 project, the Incubator runs a number of sequential cycles called "Activities". An activity typically lasts 6 months, during which a team focuses on a number of topics. Once a topic is selected for an activity cycle, it becomes part of the T&I Incubator Development Process. This document describes how new topics are introduced and how evaluation of the topics takes place. 

Methodology

It is the role of the Incubator to engage with new, yet relevant topics in the field of Trust and Identity in Research and Collaboration.
New ideas are introduced by a proposer, who describes the idea to such detail that is can be shared and understood. The Incubator provides a template for recording such new ideas. In this template the proposer is asked to describe various aspects of the idea, including:

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Figure 1: Incubator Activity steps and artifacts

Activity Steps

Propose idea (APT-BUILD)

The MIBs, Activity leads and Service leads will be given the opportunity to add topics. A proposer describes a new idea for the incubator.
The idea is captured in the Activity pipeline by filling in the Incubator Topic Template.

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