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Further candidacy updates were discussed under Team Updates: Business Development.
Team Updates
Operation team:
Contact information management
Only 31/72 federations have a dedicated security contact listed on the technical website.
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ACTION: Send out request to provide a security contact before 1st July
Team Updates
Operation team:
CAFMoz and MATE are still suspended. AAF is working with CAFMoz to get them back on board.
The validator has been updated after the problem with duplication of the description attributes for the same language, which violates the standards. Checks were added, not only for the description, but also for other attributes that are listed in the same group. Now it cannot have multiple values for the same language anymore. It will be shown as an error and the metadata will be rejected.
Support team:F-ticks:
Business development:
The number of tickets is stable. The main challenge for the support team is federations not answering to tickets.
F-Ticks and eduGAIN Reporting
Davide Vaghetti presented on the tools and core services used to run eduGAIN. Currently the development and maintenance of the tools and services is done by multiple smaller teams with different practices and service infrastructures used. The plan is to instal one unified team that will be responsible for maintaining and further developing the tools and services.
This team will define coding and deployment practices and consolidate the infrastructures used to run the services and tools.
The eduGAIN Reporting tool now moved from the Incubator task to the eduGAIN service. The eduGAIN service now works on finishing the development and works on the transition to production.
The Privacy Notice for F-Ticks has been updated and the team is looking into integrating F-Tick into the aforementioned reporting tool. More participants are needed to make F-Ticks successful. Please reach out to the team if you would like to participate.
Business development:
Latin America: RedCLARA applied with their own federation FIEL. The aim of the federation is to serve Latin-American countries without their own NREN. On the other hand RedCLARA will support small federations in the RedCLARA membership. One of these federations is YAMI from Costa Rica, which has also applied for membership.
Africa: The AfricaConnect3 project is working on a catch-all federation. The aim is to support AC3's members setting up their own federations and in the meantime support the African R&E community's federated services.
Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria are preparing to set up their own federations and will apply any time soon.
The team is planning a follow up with ASREN after training sessions end.
Team updates Security team:
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