LoA Sometimes more responsible persons, changes of persons Local regulations etc GÉANT cannot help this, federation operators have to do it internal processes have to be improved eduroam tool self assessment tool for federations - compare IdPs edugain website - see the results entity category for assurance regard aa different loas -> self assessment tool needs to regard this user-based loa in assertion later stage: level of assurance for aggregated attributes reputation based for research/einfrastructure attributes (maybe combined with aa) CONCLUSION internal processes are most difficult self assessment tool for federations edugain website should show (positive) results different loas later stage: aggregated attributes and reputation based mechanmisms