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eduGAIN Steering Group Meeting

Tuesday 16th June, 16:30 UTC (in your timezone)

Please Note that the above time is CONFIRMED.

16:15 UTC
18:15 CEST

Arrival & "Can you hear me now?" (see 

eduGAIN SG - June 2020

Connection Details)

16:30 UTC
18:30 CEST

Welcome, Introductions & Agenda Agreement

16:35 UTC
18:35 CEST

Membership Updates and Joining
  • 68 participant members / 2 members / 8 candidates
  • New Members (2)
    • China / CSTCloud Federation - 08-May-2020
    • Slovakia / safeID - 08-May-2020
  • Candidates Under Assessment (2)
    • Mexico / FENIX - 21-Nov-2019
    • Tajikistan / TARENA Identity Federation - 28-Nov-2019
  • https://technical.edugain.org/status.php

16:45 UTC
18:45 CEST

Maintaining trust relationships in a growing eduGAIN environment

  • Presentation by eduGAIN Secretariat
17:00 UTC
19:00 CEST

Baseline expectations preliminary results

  • Update for REFEDS WG
17:10 UTC
19:10 CEST

Support / Security/ Operations team update

  • Update by Davide Vaghetti - eduGAIN service owner
17:20 UTC
19:20 CEST

F-Ticks for eduGAIN pilot

  • Presentation and brief Q&A
17:35 UTC
19:35 CEST

Any other business, Summary and Actions

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17:45 UTC
19:45 CEST

Future SG Meetings

17:45 UTC
19:45 CEST

Meeting Close

Connection Details

Attendance

Federations in Attendance (xx)

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Attendees (xx)

  1. Casper Dreef, GÉANT
  2. Davide Vaghetti, IDEM/GARR
  3. Terry Smith, AAF
  4. Nicole Harris, GÉANT
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Apologies (xx)

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Notes

Welcome, Introductions & Agenda Agreement

The Chair welcomed everyone to the 4rd meeting of 2019 ...

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Minutes of the previous meeting were approved. All action remain open.

Membership Updates and Joining

For details on new members and candidates see https://technical.edugain.org/status and work on progressing new members is underway.

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  • China / CSTCloud Federation - 18-Oct-2019
  • Slovakia / safeID - 24-Oct-2019
  • Mexico / FENIX - 21-Nov-2019
  • Tajikistan / TARENA Identity Federation - 28-Nov-2019

eduGAIN Operation Processes

  • Modification of production systems
  • Summary of the deployment of profile v2

Documentation: eduGAIN Operations - SAML
Thomas and Davide explainend that the beta feed will be removed after implementation to avoid confusing. Should probably renamed in e.g. testing feed. This is different than preproduction.
Chris seconded the idea of having a test and preproduction feed. This will be benefiting the smaller federations that don't have the resources to run tests themselves.

eduGAIN Town Hall

Possibly in March 2020, but needing to include topics broader than just eduGAIN to justify travel + wider participation (to include eduroam, possibly REFEDS WGs, invite FIM4R, FIM4L, possibly some “CAMP” type sessions). This will be coordinated by Casper Dreef and was broadly supported. A Town Hall hasn't been convened since 2017, the end of 2018 event was skipped because of the preparation of the GN4-3 project. This event is to have a global focus to better support transcontinental travel.


eduGAIN "baselining"

The eduGAIN Compliance Issues wiki page has been updated but required more attention and this is an ongoing process.

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Three Baseline meetings took place over the last couple of months. You can find the notes here: https://wiki.refeds.org/display/GROUPS/Baseline+Expectations+Working+Group

Resolving eduGAIN issues

R&S, SIRTFI, baselining, validators and the many other tools are all helping to resolve and even prevent issues occuring for a researcher in one federation seamlessly accessing a service on the other side of the planet. When it all works great!

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Who and how to provide guidance is an open issue for a different forum.

Future meetings

The dates for the next SG meetings and Drop-in sessions will be shared in due course.

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Chris raised the issue of discussion documents on service catalogue. Terry highlighted emerging federations needing a service catalogue to point people toward a service - in a follow-up email he also flagged REFEDS Service Catalogue Best Practices and 2018 REFEDS Workplan. Pål highlighted the fact that with more than 3000 SPs within eduGAIN it is difficult to curate and maintain a list. Terry highlighted the desire of service providers to provide good information to encourage update of their service. Chris flagged the importance of a service might differ between federations.

AoB and Close

What to do with non-compliant federations? Should we remove them from the participants list and demote them to membership or create a 'suspended' list?

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