The eduGAIN technical website would benefit it's members by having a central overall status dashboard that renders a single page with eduGAIN stats with initial focus on latency estimates for metadata circulation. This page should auto-refresh every X seconds/minutes as a configuration. It would be a 'nice to have' if this were operationally friendly such that someone could have it presented in their NOC control center on a screen and also have the data published at an API endpoint such that someone can publicly poll the information in JSON and then in turn render it on their own.

The problem this addresses is the knowledge gap about the state of the system without requiring operational questions or gueses. Many federations exhibit latency on republishing stemming from operational practices and offline signing techniques. It would be helpful to know in a dashboard fashion the following:

• Last update of mds.edugain.org
• And per federation last known update of eduGAIN data and time difference since MDS publishing (inferred by eduGAIN ops tools based on publishing practices in a best effort style calculation)

This will go a long way in managing expectations of when to expect data to circulate beyond '24-48hrs'. I suggest a simple table view of flag and age difference from MDS so we may know how far we all drift from each other republishing data from the eduGAIN MDS 'creation date'.

CAF, obviously

SURFnet

The most interesting session that I had at TechEx 2017 ACAMP was asking "How do students federate an application?" with Fed-Lab.org and TestShib.org existing - but not solving all of the edge cases for new applications and especially new developers.

A student can pick a framework off the self - run through tutorials and then connect their application to a host of services (Github, Twitter, Facebook) but SAML often isn't an option - and even if it is - there is a lack of enviornments that a student/new developer can jump into to make their tool work. This needs to be solved to support new developers, create a sandbox for development and expose SAML integration for various frameworks.

Include OIDC