eduGAIN SG - March 2023

eduGAIN Steering Group Meeting

15 March 09:45 UTC: In your time zone

DRAFT - DRAFT - DRAFT

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Attendance

Federations in Attendance (22)

1. SWAMID, Sweden
2. AAF, Australia
3. SWITCHaai, Switzerland
4. UK Federation, United Kingdom
5. SIFULAN, Malaysia
6. HAKA, Finland
7. AAI@EduHr, Croatia
8. HAKA, Finland
9. eduID.cz, Czech Republic
10. PIONEER.Id, Poland
11. IDEM, Italy
12. SURFconext, the Netherlands
13. SAFIRE, South Africa
14. SAFE.id, Slovakia
15. RiçerkaNET Identity Federation, Malta
16. GakuNin, Japan
17. SIR, Spain
18. AAI@eduHR, Croatia
19. LEAF, Moldova
20. CAFe, Brasil
21. Canadian Access Federation, Canada
22. INFED, India

Attendees (29)

1. Björn Mattson, SWAMID
2. Terry Smith, AAF
3. Maarten Kremers, GN5-1 WP5 leader
4. Pål Axelsson, SWAMID
5. Nicole Harris, GÉANT
6. Casper Dreef, GÉANT
7. Mario Reale, GÉANT
8. Thomas Lenggenhager, SWITCHaai
9. Alex Stuart, UK Federation
10. Muhammad Farhan Sjaugi, SIFULAN
11. Lukas Hämmerle, SWITCHaai
12. Jukka Kärkkäinen, HAKA
13. Jan Oppolzer, eduID.cz
14. Tomasz Wolniewicz, PIONEER.Id
15. Maha Gorecka-Wolniewicz, PIONEER.Id
16. Davide Vaghetti, IDEM
17. Thijs Kinkhorst, SURFconext
18. Donald Coetzee, SAFIRE
19. Martin Stanislav, SAFE.id
20. Daniel Muscat, RiçerkaNet Identity Federation
21. Thomas Baerecke, eduGAIN Support team lead
22. Guy Halse, SAFIRE
23. Eisaku Sakane, GakuNin
24. Jose Manuel Macias, SIR
25. Dubravko Penezic, AAI@eduHR
26. Valentin Pocotilenco, LEAF
27. Jean Carlo Faustino, CAFe
28. Chris Phillips, CAF
29. Raja Visvanathan, INFED

Apologies (X)

1. Wolfgang Pempe (DFN)

Notes

Welcome, Introductions & Agenda Agreement

Minutes of the previous meeting

Open actions

Terry Smith opened the meeting. This eSG meeting is colocated with APAN55 in Kathmandu.

All actions remain open. We are looking at a possible resigning and making future policy signing easier using eduSIGN.

The minutes were approved.

Membership Updates and Joining

New members:

Suspended Members:

• MATE, Argentina
• CAFMoz, Mozambique

New Candidates

• iFARE, ASREN
• CAMREN, Cambodia
• Federasi, Indonesia

Assessment

• SomaliREN Identity Federation (SIF), Somalia

LAIFE - update.

Templates

Update - Alex and Heather will chair that process. Hopefully this will take not very long.

Team Updates

Support team: expand the team and give the team more responsibilities. Better use the resources and expertise of the team members. The team could help implementing the proposed changes that came out the Futures WG.

Training: What would be the training needs? It would be great if the community could share their knowledge on Hub-and-Spoke technology. Another option would be to organise a series of workshops or webinars. Davide will ask the Training Team to come up with a concrete proposal and ask for help from Federation Operators.

• ACTION: Hub-and-Spoke training / webinars

F-ticks & Reporting: Ongoing work on implementing F-ticks to the Reporting tool. Also working on auditing process. It need to be defined on how and when we would run these audits.

Security team: The eSG has approved the CSIRT documentation. The eduGAIN CSIRT has been established. The CSIRT is working on practical matters, such as rota, periodic information sharing, etc.

OT: BAU. The new approach of updating the entity database in under development. Two features calls appeared in the ECCS GitLab.

eduGAIN Working Groups: Futures

Link to whitepaper

Draft proposal for eduGAIN Governance change: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tIdyd7hzuzNvYm3Jn5D-V5DqzzcycEuR1mSYUVbalu4/edit?usp=sharing

We have been working on some revised proposals. The paper was published end of last year. Started working on the recommendations.

First focus is governance changes. A discussion piece was drafted. This paper can be found above. Main points:
- establish a small Steering Committee
- establish an Assembly

If everyone is happy with the current proposal. New draft of the Constitution and a Steering Committee ToR. Formal vote by current SG. Also it might be a good idea to resign the Declaration with current members. This would also help with establishing a management contact database. A managed process is required.

Time frame, we hope to have produce these documents and implemented the changes before TNC.

Rules and responsibilities for members of the Steering Committee. People need to know what they sign up for. The ToR will define this. Also, an informal one-pager about 'what is expected from Steering Committee members' would be very valuable.

Comments can be sent to Futures mailing list: edugain-futures@lists.geant.org

Any other business

FedCM activities. Browser updates could affect SAML protocols, single sign-out, directory. There is a REFEDS group working on this. https://wiki.refeds.org/display/GROUPS/Browser+Changes+and+Federation

APAN organised a session on FedCM. Pål will ask if the presentation could be shared with the Federation Operators. There will also be BoF at TNC23.

Future SG Meetings, Summary and Actions

Town Hall. Stockholm, 10-11 October. Colocated with REFEDS. Two full days.